Department of Bioengineering
Diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley
BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.
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Stevens BME Graduate Programs Information Sessions
Please join faculty from Stevens Institute of Technology for a virtual information session on master’s and Ph.D. programs in Biomedical Engineering With attendance of an information session, the application fee is waived Wednesday, November 20th 6-7 pm: Ph.D. program information 7-8 pm: Master’s program information Register and join one or both sessions! Master’s program website Ph.D. program overview and […]
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Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper
Trinh Lam, a postdoc in Amy Herr's lab, has won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award from AIP Publishing at the 28th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS 2024).
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Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?
Murthy lab and UC Davis have developed a unique mRNA delivery method for in-utero gene editing for neurodevelopmental conditions.
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Thermostable Cas9 Enhances RNP Performance in Lung and Liver
Niren Murthy and collaborators have developed a more stable version of the Cas9 enzyme to improve delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) for in vivo gene editing.
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Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering
Professor Adam Arkin has been granted an award of over $20 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to pursue microbiome engineering to create probiotic bacterial communities that prevent and treat lung pathogens.
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Engineering and Imaging Summer Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Announcing the 2025 Engineering and Imaging Summer research immersion Program sponsored by the graduate school of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We invite current engineering sophomores and juniors interested in using engineering skills to tackle the open questions in biomedicine in labs at MSK for a 10-week immersive in-person summer research experience in NYC. We […]
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Singapore internships
A*STAR Graduate Academy is offering a 2 to 6-month research attachment through the Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) for undergraduate and master’s students in STEM fields. Students can gain hands-on experience working with world-renowned researchers in Singapore from May 2025. Eligible applicants must be in their 3rd or 4th year or enrolled in a master’s program, […]
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Faculty focus on Leah Guthrie
Professor Leah Guthrie works to understand how the microbiome metabolites and proteins communicate with our human cells to influence our physiology and pathophysiology. Learn more about Guthrie in this interview with QB3.
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Delcassian receives seed funding for cancer research
Professor Derfogail Delcassian has been awarded $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of her work on targeted molecular therapies for hard-to-treat cancers.
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Undergraduate program ranks 6th in the US!
The Berkeley Bioengineering undergraduate program has moved up to rank 6th in the nation in the latest rankings released by US News & World Report.
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