Congratulations to our new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are current PhD students Ashley Qin; incoming PhD students Erin Ahern, Daniel Antov, Marvin Collins, Lauren Iskander, Zachary Lee, Steven Robles Blasini; graduating undergraduates Monica Mendoza and Safaa Mouline; and undergraduate alumni Jacob Bryan, Emily Huynh, and Elaine Tong. Well done!

Our PhD program in bioengineering has been ranked #4 in the United States by the latest US News & World Report graduate schools ranking! Berkeley tied with Duke and Stanford for the #4 spot. 

Berkeley startup AsparaGlue, founded on science by Professor Phil Messersmith and postdoc Subhajit Pal, won an East Bay Innovation Award for their bioinspired surgical superglue.

Professor Aaron Streets has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Streets was selected for “developing innovative technology to elucidate genome regulation with single-cell and molecule resolution, and for impactful leadership to diversify bioengineering.College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering and…

Bioengineering Chair Phillip Messersmith has been named to the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. Messersmith was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the understanding of wet biological adhesion, and for…