September 30, 2015
Those who attended this year’s recent Postdoc Research Symposium and Postdoc Appreciation Lunch and Awards Ceremony sampled research projects from 25 different departments, and desert at the crowded Appreciation Lunch took the form of well-deserved awards.
December 8, 2016
Creating Clinical Bioengineers New class teaches undergrads to use engineering-based solutions to bridge gap between engineering and medicine Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications A group of UC San Diego bioengineering students huddle around a computer screen as colored images of blood being pumped through a heart flash across…
August 12, 2014
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have proven that when it comes to guiding stem cells into a specific cell type, the stiffness of the extracellular matrix used to culture them really does matter. When placed in a dish of a very stiff material, or hydrogel, most stem…
May 26, 2016
…Start UC San Diego Bioengineering ranked first by National Research Council since founding 50 years ago Ph.D. student Jessica Ungerleider looks at one of her experiments in the lab of bioengineering professor Karen Christman at the Sanford Consortium. Bioengineers at UC San Diego have helped us understand why atherosclerosis develops…
August 11, 2022
…Edward Ashworth, postdoctoral researcher, Department of Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego with contributions from Ryotaro Ogawa and Peter Lindholm Adi Khen, graduate student, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, Smith Lab Anne Lyons, doctoral student, Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, Jin Zhang Lab with contributions…
September 16, 2013
Cancer tumors almost never share the exact same genetic mutations, a fact that has confounded scientific efforts to better categorize cancer types and develop more targeted, effective treatments. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego propose a new approach called network-based stratification, which identifies cancer subtypes not by the…
February 24, 2022
Bioengineering Alumnus on COVID-19 Antiviral Pill Development Team Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Britton Boras earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2015, conducting research with Professor Andrew McCulloch on multi-scale modeling of biological systems. Now a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer, Boras uses the modeling skills he honed at UC…
January 13, 2021
Mutations that occur in certain DNA regions, called tandem repeats, may play a significant role in autism spectrum disorders, according to research led by Melissa Gymrek, assistant professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering and School of Medicine.
January 30, 2014
Eight stem cell scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded a total of $8.165 million to fund research tackling significant, unresolved issues in human stem cell biology.
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…
