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The Department of Bioengineering ranks 4th in the nation for biomedical/bioengineering (US News and World Report Ranking of Best Engineering Schools, published March 2020). Bioengineering has ranked among the top four programs in the nation every year for more than a decade.
UC San Diego bioengineering professor Shu Chien made many foundational scientific discoveries over the course of his 62-year academic career, ranging from uncovering a key reason why sedentary lifestyles can be unhealthy to how to more efficiently screen for adverse effects of small molecule drugs in patients. But from the stories that emerged during a two-day celebration in honor of his retirement it's clear that it's the lessons he unknowingly taught on how to be a better person that resonated most deeply with the hundreds of students, colleagues and collaborators around the world who view him as a beloved mentor.
Indentifying mechanisms of diseases with complex inheritance patterns, such as macular telangiectasia type 2, is challenging. A link between macular telangiectasia type 2 and altered serine matabolism has been established previously. Through exome aequewnce analysis of a patient with macular telangiectasia type 2 and his family members, we identified a variant in SPTLC1 encoding a subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT). Because mutations affecting SPT are known to cause hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1 (HSAN1), we examined 10 additional persons with HSAN1 for ophtalmologic disease. We assayed serum amino acid and sphingoid base levels, including levels of deoxysphingolipids, in patients who had macular telangiectasia type 2 but did not have HSAN1 or pathogenic variants affecting SPT. We characterized mice with low serine levels and tested the effects of deoxysphingolipids on human rentinal organoids.
At her lab at UC San Diego in La Jolla, biomedical engineer Karen Christman grinds up chemically altered pig heart tissue. This material is no longer a collection of cells. It’s been ground up and turned into a fine powder.
It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 Shunichi Usami Ph.D. Thesis Design Award in Bioengineering are:
Jun Wang "Silicon Integrated Neuromorphic Neural Interfaces"
Pranjali Beri "Cellular Adhesion Strength as a Potential Biophysical Marker of Metastatic Behavior"
It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 Engelson Ph.D. Thesis Award in Bioengineering are:
Yiqian (Shirley) Wu "From Visualization of Molecular Events to Remote Control of T Cells"
Yan Wu "Studying human development via the single-cell profiling of primary human tissues and genetic perturbation of novel developmental models"
- 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.
San Diego, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019 -- Pancreatic cancer is the third most lethal cancer in the United States. Patients typically don’t know they have it until it’s too late, making it difficult to treat. Only 9 percent survive five years after diagnosis.
But recent discoveries at the UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine are raising hope. Michael Bouvet, MD, Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology, who specializes in endocrine surgery, has been working with Peter Yingxiao Wang, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, to develop a treatment.
The UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering faculty are recognized nationally for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and research.
The Department of Bioengineering is recruiting for:
Assistant Professor - Bioengineering (CLICK TO https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02257) – Department of Bioengineering
Assistant Professor - Regenerative Medicine-Bioengineering – Joint with School of Medicine (Department of Medicine-Division of Regenerative Medicine) (https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/
Assistant Professor - High throughput Imaging of Gene Regulation – Joint with School of Medicine (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine) ( https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/
Project Scientist Recruitment - Internal Posting only for postdocs progressing to Proj Scientist series ( https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02480 )
Professor of Practice - Center of Microbiome Innovation ( https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02476 )
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