News
May 22, 2006
UC San Diego's Entrepreneurism Center Funds Nine New Faculty Projects for Technology Commercialization
UCSD's von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement has awarded approximately $430,000 to nine projects led by faculty from the Jacobs School of Engineering. The projects include a bioengineered treatment for anemia; and a miniature camera for certain types of minimally invasive surgery. Full Story
May 18, 2006
Cell, Heal Thyself: New Systems Biology Model Reveals How Cells Repair DNA Damage
Researchers at UCSD and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. The group led by UCSD bioengineering professor Trey Ideker describe in the May 19 issue of Science an elaborate system of gene control that is triggered by chemical damage to DNA. Full Story
April 24, 2006
Shu Chien Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Shu Chien is one of six scholars from the University of California, San Diego named today as Fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chien directs the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering and is a university professor of bioengineering and medicine. Full Story
April 18, 2006
UCSD Joins MentorNet, Connecting Students with Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry and Academia
UCSD has become a partner in MentorNet, a program that uses email to facilitate one-on-one mentoring relationships between successful engineers, scientists and mathematicians, and college students who aspire to careers in those fields. Full Story
April 14, 2006
UC San Diego Scientists Chart Rapid Advances of Fluorescent Tools for Life-Science Research
An interdisciplinary team of biological imaging experts including Bioengineering adjunct professor Mark Ellisman has published a review of fluorescent imaging technologies in the life sciences, featured on the cover of the journal Science. Full Story
April 5, 2006
Two UCSD Engineers Awarded $1 Million Teaching Grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Two Jacobs School professors -- bioengineer Robert Sah and computer scientist Pavel Pevzner -- will receive $1 million each over four years to develop innovative educational programs to "ignite the scientific spark in a new generation of students." Full Story
March 22, 2006
Two Jacobs School Professors Selected for Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards
Bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson and Computer Science and Engineering professor Geoffrey Voelker have been honored by UCSD with two of the five Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards for 2006. Full Story
March 20, 2006
Two UCSD Bioengineering Professors Recognized as Pioneers in Emerging Field of Comparative Interactomics
Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of technology, has highlighted two bioengineering professors at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering, as pioneers of one of 10 “emerging technologies” that the magazine predicts will soon transform computing, medicine, telecommunications, and business. Full Story
March 15, 2006
UCSD Computer Scientist Works with Cancer Researchers to Understand How Cancer Genomes Evolve
CSE bioinformatics postdoc Ben Raphael and professor Pavel Pezner co-author Genome Research article with UCSF cancer researchers on rearrangements of a breast cancer tumor genome. Full Story