From Sea Monkeys to Shelf-Stable Insulin
It’s not every day that a gag gift at a holiday party sparks a new line of research, but that turned out to be the case for Heather Maynard, a polymer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As she watched little shrimp-like sea monkeys emerge...
UCLA Engineers Find AI-Based Solution to Communicate Information around Opaque Walls
Nov 7, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Traditional wireless communications have relied on long-wave electromagnetic microwave and radio frequencies, but the growing need for faster data transfer rates has presented performance challenges. Shorter wavelengths, such as the...
Professor Jaimie Stewart receives Sloan Matter-to-Life Seed Grant
Jaimie Marie Stewart, an assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a Sloan Matter-to-Life Seed Grant in the research area of Building Life from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her project proposes to build synthetic...
UCLA Bioengineering Alumnus Aims to Democratize Cancer Treatments
Oct 16, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom The American Cancer Society estimates 59,610 Americans will receive a leukemia diagnosis and 23,710 will die from the blood cancer in the U.S. by the end of this year. Cell therapy, a treatment for leukemia and similar cancers, can...
First-Gen Latino Doctoral Student Aims to Make an Impact in STEM
Sep 19, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Growing up in San Bernardino, California, in a working-class immigrant family, Andrew Ramirez didn’t know what engineers were until a science teacher in his high school encouraged him to look into the profession. Now on his way to...
New Study Identifies Genes Linked to High Production of Key Antibody
Aug 14, 2023 Originally posted on UCLA Newsroom Acollaboration led by UCLA and the Seattle Children’s Research Institute has yielded new knowledge about the genes responsible for the production and release of immunoglobulin G, the most common type of antibody in the...
Self-supervised AI Learns Physics to Reconstruct Microscopic Images from Holograms
Aug 7, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Researchers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have unveiled an artificial intelligence-based model for computational imaging and microscopy without training with experimental objects or real data. In a recent paper published...
Nicholas S. Cho Selected as Editorial Fellow
The American Journal of Neuroradiology is pleased to announce Nicholas S. Cho has been selected as this year’s Editorial Fellow. Mr. Cho is an MD/PhD candidate at the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program in Los Angeles. He is currently pursuing his graduate...
UCLA Bioengineering Receives $1M NSF Grant to Transform Undergraduate Education
UCLA Samueli Newsroom The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1-million grant to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Bioengineering Department to integrate evidence-based organizational change strategies into the undergraduate curriculum. The proposed...