bioengineering

Synthetic biomaterial guides cancer therapy to hidden tumors

Wed Jan 20, 2021

Tejal Desai, PhD, and colleagues took inspiration from the structure of DNA to engineer a biomaterial that promises to improve CAR-T cell therapy for various cancers.

Advance opens up new possibilities for CAR T-cell therapy to treat a variety of cancers

Desai and Szoka named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Thu Dec 5, 2019

Tejal Desai, PhD, and Francis Szoka, PhD

The two faculty members have spent their careers working to improve therapies to treat disease.

The Kidney Project earns KidneyX award to make home dialysis better for patients

Thu May 2, 2019

Elisabeth Fall

Shuvo Roy, PhD, earned an award from KidneyX that will fund the development of an easy-to-use home dialysis system for kidney disease patients.

A team led by Shuvo Roy, PhD, recently won an award that will fund the development of an easy-to-use, safe, and effective home dialysis system.

Kortemme and Desai honored at annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Thu Mar 28, 2019

UCSF Precision Medicine

New and established AIMBE fellows (left to right): Shuvo Roy, PhD, Julius Guccione, PhD, Thomas Link, PhD, Tanja Kortemme, PhD, Atul Butte, PhD, and Tejal Desai, PhD.

School of Pharmacy faculty members Tanja Kortemme and Tejal Desai both received honors at the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Desai named the director of new UCSF bioengineering initiative

Thu Feb 28, 2019

The Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) program will be led by Tejal Desai, PhD.

The Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) program is designed to inspire collaborations in bioengineering research.

Cao takes second prize in the UC Grad Slam final

Mon May 7, 2018

Yiqi Cao, second from right, earns second place in the UC Grad Slam Finals.

UCSF Graduate Division

Yiqi Cao, third from left, earns second place in the UC Grad Slam Finals.

Yiqi Cao, a bioengineering PhD candidate, detailed a promising solution she developed for a heart stent that doesn’t trigger scar tissue buildup.

Meet BTS Alum Adam Mendelsohn

Mon Aug 14, 2017

Adam Mendelsohn, PhD

Adam Mendelsohn, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Nano Precision Medical, Inc., an Emeryville-based startup company that is developing a rice-grain-sized subdermal implant that delivers medicine at constant rates over time.

Desai keynotes BioEHSC 2017

Mon Apr 17, 2017

BioEHSC-2017 Co-Chairs Present Bouquet to Prof. Desai

Co-chairs Kitayama and Jeffreys present a thank you bouquet to Desai.

Professor and department chair Tejal Desai, PhD, had the honor of keynoting the 2017 Bioengineering High School Competition (BioEHSC) held recently at UC Berkeley. BioEHSC is hosted annually by the Bioengineering Honor Society (BioEHS) at Berkeley.

Prien and MacWilliam bequests establish new endowed professorships

Wed Dec 7, 2016

Foresight, newsletter of UCSF Office of Gift & Endowment Planning

Ernest Prien, BS ’34 and Mary MacWilliam, EdD, UC Berkeley, 1956

The UCSF School of Pharmacy has established new endowed faculty positions to be held by the chairs of two School departments.

Gartner to co-direct new UCSF-based Center for Cellular Construction

Mon Sep 26, 2016