News
December 7, 2011
New Shu Chien Lab in New Research Building to Investigate Best Environment to Grow Stem Cells
Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien, who recently received a National Medal of Science at the White House, will have a laboratory in the new Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine building. Chien’s lab will be dedicated to further developing a technology that allows scientists to identify the best environments to grow stem cells. Creating these environments requires mixing many proteins in a wide range of combinations. The new technology allows researchers to test hundreds of them at once. Full Story
November 28, 2011
Jacobs School Recruiting for 10 Positions in 2011-12
The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego currently is recruiting for 10 open faculty positions in the 2011-12 academic year. The positions fall within three strategic research focus areas identified by the school: energy, sustainability and environment; engineering in medicine; and information technology and applications. An additional position focuses on the applicants’ contributions to diversity, in addition to research and scholarship. Full Story
November 21, 2011
New UC San Diego Bioengineering Professor Uncovers Cancer Metabolism Insights
Research from a new member of the bioengineering faculty at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering demonstrates that our cells metabolize nutrients in a very different manner than has long been thought. According to new research published in the journal Nature by Christian Metallo, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, cells growing under conditions similar to those inside tumors prefer to convert amino acids to lipids rather than carbohydrates. Full Story
October 28, 2011
Explosives, Rock n' Roll and Rollercoasters: Scientists' Lives Showcased in Newspaper Feature
One performs in a rock band while perfecting computer vision systems. Another spent time in the Amazon forest in his youth and is drawing on that experience to look for ways to create new materials inspired by the rainforest’s fauna. Another is a rollercoaster fanatic and helps explore how different parts of the brain work together as a system. Yet another is a football fan who is improving the brain-machine interface. And yet another had dinner with the King of Sweden without even knowing it and aims to build smart solar farms. All five are professors at the Jacobs School of Engineering and have appeared in the Union-Tribune’s “10 Things” feature. Full Story
October 24, 2011
A Call for Increased Funding for Education and Research at National Medal of Science Awards Ceremony
What did Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien and Barack Obama talk about as Chien received the National Medal of Science from the president Friday at the White House? About the importance of science education and research, of course. Full Story
October 19, 2011
Shu Chien to Receive National Medal of Science in White House Ceremony on Oct. 21
President 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: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live. Full Story
September 27, 2011
White House Awards UC San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien National Medal of Science
President Barack Obama today named University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Shu Chien one of the seven eminent researchers to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers. Chien is the only engineer among the seven medalists. Full Story
September 12, 2011
UC San Diego Bioengineers Named 2012 Siebel Scholars
With the 2012 class of Siebel Scholars, 85 new scholars – including five from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering – join an ever-growing, lifelong community of leaders. Today, 700 Siebel Scholars are active in a program that fosters leadership, academic achievement, and the collaborative search for solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Full Story
September 7, 2011
Accessible and Affordable Care at Heart of Healthcare Technology Grants
Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and preventive health care, particularly in underserved communities. The commercialization grant program is led by the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
September 1, 2011
Glowing, Blinking Bacteria Reveal How Cells Synchronize Biological Clocks
Biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego created a model biological system consisting of glowing, blinking E. coli bacteria. This simple circadian system, the researchers report in the September 2 issue of Science,allowed them to study in detail how a population of cells synchronizes their biological clocks and enabled the researchers for the first time to describe this process mathematically. Full Story