Implantable “Charging Station” Boosts Fight Against Cancer
Mar 17, 2026 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body’s own immune system to fight disease. But many engineered immune cells lose strength quickly after they enter the body, especially inside tumors that actively...
Incoming UCLA Engineering Faculty Member Mohamad Abedi Awarded Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grant for Cancer Immunotherapy Research
Mohamad Abedi, an incoming assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a 2026 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grant to support his research developing next-generation immunotherapies for cancer. Abedi’s research...
Mineral sunscreen that reduces white cast developed by UCLA researchers
Denise Heady February 3, 2026 Key takeaways Mineral sunscreen formulas with zinc oxide often leave a white, chalky cast. The new study, led by UCLA researchers, found that a simple change in the shape of zinc oxide particles could address this drawback. Instead of...
COVID-19 Viral Fragments Shown to Target and Kill Specific Immune Cells in UCLA-Led Study
Jan 25, 2026 Originally posted on UCLA Newsroom Key takeaways A UCLA-led research team demonstrated that when human immune enzymes break up the spike protein of the virus behind COVID-19, some resulting fragments have the ability to punch holes in membranes of human...
Invention of DNA “Page Numbers” Opens Up Vast Possibilities for the Bioeconomy
The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins that form the building blocks of materials stronger than steel, or personalized cancer...
Bioengineering Doctoral Student Co-Authors AI Heart Model Paper Published in Nature
Bioengineering Doctoral Student Co-Authors AI Heart Model Paper Published in Nature A team including a UCLA bioengineering doctoral student has developed the largest-ever artificial intelligence model for interpreting echocardiograms, ultrasound images of the heart....
Bioengineering Students Named to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List
On Nov. 12 2025, in the 2025 edition of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list—which recognised 6,868 researchers worldwide across more than 1,300 institutions in 60 countries with 7,131 awards—UCLA Bioengineering post-doctoral researcher Yihao Zhou and PhD student...
UCLA Bioengineers Develop Microscope For Ultra-fast 3D Video Inside Living Tissue
A team of UCLA bioengineers, scientists and colleagues have built a new type of microscope that can make ultra-fast 3D videos inside living tissue. At 1,000 frames per second, the camera can track individual blood cells as they flow through tiny blood vessels. It can...
Dynamic and Soft Cell Surroundings Shape Cell Identity
Oct 24, 2025 UCLA Samueli Newsroom AUCLA-led research team has discovered that the viscoelasticity of a cell’s surroundings — the property that allows them to harden and soften as they deform and relax under stress over time — can influence how the cell’s genetic...