April 17, 2024
A University of California San Diego current graduate student in the Department of Theatre and Dance and an undergraduate alumna from the Department of Bioengineering are are among 30 recipients of the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
October 10, 2011
White House Awards Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien National Medal of Science Professor Shu Chien, recipient of the National Medal of Science. President Barack Obama will soon honor University of California, San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien in a White House ceremony for the seven eminent researchers to receive the National…
December 10, 2012
Just like the bones that hold up your body, your cells have their own scaffolding that holds them up. This scaffolding, known as the extracellular matrix, or ECM, not only props up cells but also provides attachment sites, or “sticky spots,” to which cells can bind, just as bones hold…
October 21, 2011
…Barack Obama will present University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). The ceremony will be carried live by satellite feed and webcast on the White House website at:…
October 11, 2023
Researchers at UC San Diego and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded an $8.5 million grant to create a data integration hub aimed at accelerating novel therapeutics and cures for diseases within initiatives supported by the NIH Common Fund.
February 4, 2019
UC San Diego’s Clinical Bioengineering course offers undergraduate engineering students hands-on learning experience to solve clinical problems. The course reflects the Institute of Engineering in Medicine’s mission to connect engineers with physicians to produce medical innovations.
April 14, 2022
Bioengineers Visualize Fat Storage in Fruit Flies Lingyan Shi For the first time, researchers have visually monitored, in high resolution, the timing and location of fat storage within the intact cells of fruit flies. The new optical imaging tool from the lab of bioengineering professor Lingyan Shi at the University…
May 23, 2013
…teaching.” Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Christian Metallo, one of the 10 recipients, will use the award to study heart metabolism, as well as for efforts to educate the public on the relationship between nutrition and heart disease. “The Hellman Faculty Fellowship is providing me with essential resources to initiate studies…
February 27, 2020
…Cookson (UC San Diego bioengineering Ph.D. ‘08) is the CEO Quantitative BioSciences, a startup which spun out of the Hasty lab at UC San Diego. “Water might be fine to drink, fine to drink, fine to drink…and then it’s not,” said UC San Diego bioengineering alumna Natalie Cookson (‘08) as…
February 13, 2018
Aswini Krishnan, a fourth-year bioengineering major at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive awards available to American students pursuing science, mathematics and engineering fields. The award provides one year of funding to pursue a master’s degree at…
