Bioengineering Undergraduate Wins Scholarship, Starts Organization for Rare Disease
Shilp Shah receives a Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship and has started an organization with his brother Sahil for pediatric neurofibromatosis. Third-year UCLA bioengineering major Shilp Shah and his brother Sahil have formed a support organization to help...
Bioengineers Develop Spider Web-Inspired Method to Fabricate Conductive Fibers
May 31, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Using a new process that mimics how spiders spin silk, a UCLA-led team of multi-institutional bioengineers has developed a simple process to make soft, electrically conductive fibers at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. In a...
Bruin Engineer Builds Startup to Tackle Sepsis One Cell at a Time
May 17, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom More than a decade after he co-founded medical diagnostics company Cytovale in 2013, UCLA bioengineering alumnus Henry Tse, Ph.D. ’12 is well on his way to deploy a tool his company designed for early detection of sepsis — the number...
Inaugural California Neurotechnology Conference connects professionals, students
By Basile Maïza Daily Bruin May 8, 2023 6:58 p.m. This post was updated May 9 at 11:55 p.m. CruX UCLA hosted the inaugural California Neurotechnology Conference on April 29, featuring professionals and student clubs across the UC system. Dozens of researchers,...
UCLA Engineers Develop AI-Trained Unidirectional Imagers
Apr 28, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Traditional optical imaging and communication systems, typically composed of lenses, perform imaging operations in both forward and backward directions. Similar to a pipe that enables liquid to flow through from one end to the other...
Prof. Tzung Hsiai elected to Association of American Physicians
From left to right: Arleen Brown, Patricia Ganz, Tzung Hsiai and Antoni Ribas. UCLA Newsroom | April 26, 2023 Four UCLA physicians have been elected to the Association of American Physicians for 2023, bringing the number of members from UCLA and the David Geffen...
Arab Student Club President Builds Community through Clubs, Research
Apr 24, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Growing up in Rabat, Morocco, Soulaïmane Bentaleb spoke French and Arabic at home. He found himself surrounded by an unfamiliar language and culture when he first started college at UCLA in 2019. Now a fourth-year bioengineering...
Andrea Kasko Inducted into the 2023 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Andrea Kasko, Ph.D., Professor at University of California, Los Angeles to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among...
Prof. Jun Chen receives V.M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award
Every very year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. Below is the profile of Jun Chen, Ph.D., the recipient of the V.M....