Welcome to Bioengineering

It is a tremendous pleasure to announce that upon the recommendation of the Thesis Awards Committee (Professor Intaglietta, Chair) the winners of the 2018-2019 Engelson Ph.D. Thesis Award in Bioengineering are:

Kimberly McCabe  Kimberly completed her Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Professor Andrew McCulloch and her thesis title is:

- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Saltzman 

- Student Organization Demos 

- Senior Design Showcase 

- Networking Luncheon 

- Industry Demos 

Wearable Sensing, NeuroPace, MaxCyte, Advanced Brain Monitoring, Cellink

- Quizbowl 

San Diego, Calif., March 25, 2019--Two researchers at Jacobs School of Engineering were inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the organization announced. Professors Pedro Cabrales and Todd Coleman from the Department of Bioengineering were recognized during a ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences Great Hall in Washington, DC, on March 25.

The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country, including the most accomplished and distinguished engineering and medical school chairs, research directors, professors, innovators and successful entrepreneurs.

Clinical Bioengineering course offers undergraduate engineering students hands-on learning experience to solve clinical problems

San Diego, Calif., Feb. 4, 2019 -- A 3D modeling tool to help surgeons plan out the best surgical procedures before operating on patients. A smart shoe insole that optimizes lower-extremity rehabilitation. Redesigned surgical drains that can be placed under incisions to remove tumors.

At UC San Diego, the fields of engineering and medicine aren’t just merging in research labs, they’re merging in the classroom as well.

San Diego, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019 -- A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has identified a genetic pathway that causes some individuals to develop an abnormal heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, after experiencing a heart attack. They have also identified a drug candidate that can block this pathway.

The team reported their findings in a study published Jan. 28 in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

The 2019 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators were individually nominated by members of the journal’s editorial and advisory boards, as well as previous Emerging Investigators, in recognition of the honorees’ potential to influence future directions in the biomat

Join us in congratulating Dr. Bernhard Palsson & Dr. Rob Knight on this special recognition!!

Prof. Wheeler is particularly interested in the future of our young biomedical engineers. To this end he is heavily involved in UCSDs's new undergraduate Bioengineering Systems major, teaching and developing courses in instrumentation, signal processing and design. In his work with the UCSD Bioengineering: Systems UG major he emphasizes classical systems engineering but is cognizant that this education needs to take place in a context of genomics/informatics and the wearable/sensor/physiologic revolutions, both of which are changing the practice of medicine.

Out of 343 teams, the UC San Diego Bioengineering IGEM team received 2nd place overall in the undergraduate track, UC San Diego's first finalist seeding in school and iGEM history. Our team won best overall diagnostics project as well as the following Special Track prizes: Best Education and Public Engagement, Best Entrepreneurship, Best Poster, and additional top 5 nominations in Best Integrated Human Practices and Best Wiki. These were the first times that UC San Diego has won any special awards or even been nominated for them within this competition. 

"The ultimate goal is to develop scalable maps that can zoom out to describe the functions of whole systems, and zoom in to the level of single cells and genomes." -Dr. Kun Zhang     The money comes in two grants from the National Institutes of Health.

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Dr. Shankar Subramaniam is one of the pioneers of the field of developing data and analysis environments for metabolomics. His research group focuses on systems biology and systems medicine, including diseases of the liver, muscles, brain and vascular system.  

Congratulations Dr. Elliot McVeigh for being Awarded the 2018 EMBS Technical Achievement Award 

“For recognition of his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the advance of the magnetic resonance field in cardiac studies, with many seminal works now translated in the clinical practice.”

Mridu Sinha 
Mridu completed her Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Profs. Todd P. Coleman and Stephanie I. Fraley Co-Advisers, and her thesis title is:
“Improving Clinical Practices in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bioengineering Approach” 

Mehmet Badur  
Mehmet completed his Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Professor Christian Metallo, and his thesis title is:
"Elucidation of redox metabolism control points in highly proliferative cells” 
 

Please join me in congratulating Mridu and Mehmet for this extraordinary achievement.  
With best regards - Kun Zhang