October 12, 2009 - Our new Berkeley Bioengineering Department Chair, Matthew Tirrell, is featured in this month's Innovations email newsletter from the College of Engineering. Tirrell talks about his excitement at joining Berkeley and plans for the department. Read more at Innovations.
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October 5, 2009 - Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy was featured in the People and Ideas column of the October 5 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
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October 5, 2009 - Bioengineering Graduate Group Affliliate Michel Maharbiz and BioE grad student Daniel Cohen have pioneered a new technique to control gene expression in two dimensions over time, using a modified inkjet printer.
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September 30, 2009 - Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Irina Conboy and collaborators have identified a critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to restore the muscle's ability to repair and rebuild itself, offering hope for future injury repair and anti-aging techniques.
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September 28, 2009 - Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Jay Keasling was featured in a New Yorker article, A Life Of It's Own, this September. The article explored the origins and potential future of the field of syntheic biology. Read more at the New Yorker.
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September 16, 2009 - The Siebel Foundation yesterday announced five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Seibel Scholars.
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September 2009 - UC Irvine professor, and BioE Ph.D. alumna, Michelle Khine was featured as a 2009 Young Innovator in the Tech Review 35.
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August 2009 - Bioengineering Lecturer Terry Johnson has been selected to participate in the 2009-2010 UC Berkeley Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program.
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August 2009 - The Department of Bioengineering would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. John Dueber.
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July 22, 2009 - In a major publication in the latest issue of PLoS ONE, Berkeley Bioengineering researchers unveiled their revolutionary cell phone platform for remote fluorescent microscopy.
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July 13, 2009 - Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr is the recipient of a 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Herr was recognized for her proposal on "An Integrated Micro/Nanosystem for Rapid Validation of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Biomarkers".
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July 9, 2009 - Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers by President Obama.
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May 20, 2009 - Jay Keasling, Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and Acting Deputy Directory of Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the first Biotech Humanitarian Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
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June 24, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Rick Henrickson has taken 3rd prize in the Center for Integrations of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Prize for Primary Healthcare.
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June 8, 2009 - Assistant Professor of Bioenginering Amy Herr has been granted a 2009 awards from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund. Created by a generous gift from distinguished alumnus F. Warren Hellman, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund awards research grants to junior faculty who have shown a promise of great distinction.
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June 2009 -Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded prestigious fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other prestigious external fellowships.
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May 22, 2009 - Thomas Budinger, Professor and Founding Chair of UC Berkeley Bioengineering, has been awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
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May 2009 - Cutting edge Lab-on-a-Chip research from Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee's lab was featured in the Spring 2009 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.
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May 1, 2009 - Bioengineering graduate student Kelly Karns won first prize with her team in the 11th annual Berkeley Business Plan competition, held at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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May 2, 2009 - A Berkeley Bioengineering student and faculty member have won Chancellor's Public Service Awards this year, high honors for civic engagement sponsored by Cal Corps Public Service Center, the Office of Government and Community Relations, and University Events.
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May 2009 - Bioengineering graduate students Lily Peng, Kayte Fischer and Adam Mendelsohn were featured in the College of Engineering Innovations magazine for their work on a a tiny implantable device capable of delivering steady and minute quantities of medication into the bloodstream.
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May 2009 - Several Bioengineering students won prizes again in this year's UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries competition.
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April 26, 2009 - Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has received a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance to fund the new Bioengineering Capstone Design course, BioE 192.
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April 2009Each year, over 200 Graduate Student Instructors across campus are chosen for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates.
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April 20, 2009 - Matthew Tirrell, incoming Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and current Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tirrell is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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