Re-appointment of Prof. Song Li as Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
It gives us great pleasure to announce the re-appointment of Prof. Song Li as Chair of the Department of Bioengineering effective July 1, 2021 for a three-year term. Song has been serving as department chair for the last five years. Song joined the faculty in 2016....
BGA Highlights
1. Bioengineering Research Day - BGA kicked off our first virtual Bioengineering Research Day on February 5th, 2021. We hosted 130+ attendees, including prospective Bioengineering masters and doctoral students. We were delighted to highlight incoming UCLA BE Professor...
BMES Highlights
1. BMES Career Fair - BMES kicked off its first virtual career fair on October 20th, 2020. We hosted 14 different companies, including: Medtronic, Abbott Laboratories, Advanced Sterilization Products, Moderna, ZS Associates, and more. Over 250 students across 16...
Professor Stephanie Seidlits won the inaugural Shu Chien Early Career Award competition
Professor Stephanie Seidlits won the inaugural Shu Chien Early Career Award competition on an online Zoom video conference on November 23, 2020. This annual UC-Wide award is given to the pre-tenured faculty who demonstrates outstanding scholarly achievement. The goal...
Bioengineering graduate students recognized by SLAS Award, NSF Fellowship and Cota Robles Fellowship
Joe De Rutte wins SLAS 2020 Innovation Award Bioengineering PhD student Joe De Rutte, advised by Prof. Dino DiCarlo, was awarded the Innovation Award by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) for his presentation “High-Throughput Encapsulation and...
A Message from the Chair
The past six months have been full of challenges. To address public health needs during the pandemic, our bioengineering research labs have contributed immensely to the design and fabrication of PPEs, the development of diagnostic tools, and the discovery of...
Two NIH training grants awarded to support UCLA/CalTech team
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are partnering to provide a 2-year, structured curriculum for training post-doctoral engineers and biophysical or biomedical scientists to prepare them for...
BMES receiving the Commendable Chapter Award for 2019-2020
BMES at UCLA was awarded the Commendable Chapter Award for their work during the 2019-2020 school year. This is the second year that BMES at UCLA received this award. With expansion of technical projects and workshops, developments in community outreach programs with...
Five UCLA Engineering Students Receive 2020 NSF Graduate Fellowships
Apr 20, 2020 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom Five UCLA Samueli engineering students — two graduate and three undergraduate students pursuing an advanced degree — have received the prestigious 2020 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The...