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Cancer Diagnostics Startup Win Entrepreneurship Competition

06.02.09

San Diego, CA, June 2, 2009 -- A team of bioengineering graduate students from the Jacobs School of Engineering won first place at the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge for the business plan they built around their new early cancer diagnostic technology. The bioengineering students have already formed a startup company, Biological Dynamics, and they are currently seeking funding from investors. Read more?

Educational Objectives and Outcomes

An Educational Objectives and Outcomes section have been added to the Undergraduate Section of the NanoEngineering website to reflect ABET and WASC Accreditation standards. To see the new changes, please visit our Educational Objectives and Outcomes page.

Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards

Thirty-three assistant professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named recipients of the 2009-2010 Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards to support their research and creative activities including Dr. Jennifer Cha and Dr. Liangfang Zhang. Read more?

Technology for Early-Cancer Diagnosis Leads

05.11.09

Bioengineering Grad Student to Many Prizes and a Startup Company. San Diego, CA, May 11, 2009 -- For breakthroughs aimed at early-stage cancer diagnostics, Raj Krishnan, a bioengineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego has taken home three first place awards at graduate research competitions this year. Not pausing to polish his awards, Krishnan has co-founded Biological Dynamics, a startup company aimed at transferring the new cancer diagnostic technology from the laboratory to the clinic. Read more?

Battlefield Medic on a Chip

The majority of deaths on the battlefield occur within half an hour after injury--often too quickly for a soldier to get to a medic, let alone a hospital. But a collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Clarkson University, in New York, aims to change all that with a chip that could detect injuries and treat them almost instantly. Read more?

Dr. Liangfang Zhang - 2009 Victor K. LaMer Award

04.13.09

Dr. Liangfang Zhang, has been awarded the 2009 Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to recognize his graduate research and promise as a future investigator. For more information, please visit our News page.

Positions Available

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in multiscale modeling and simulation of gene regulatory systems in Dr. Gaurav Arya's Computational Biophysics group. More information?
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Nanoscale World Record for UCSD

10.30.2008

A team of scientists from University of California, San Diego (USA) and Arizona State University (Tempe, USA) has now developed nanorods that swim extremely fast. Read more?

Joseph Wang, Most Cited Engineer, Joins NanoEngineering

10.16.2008

Joseph Wang, the most cited engineer from 1991 to 2001 and consistently one of the world’s most cited engineers and chemists, joined the faculty of the Department of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering this summer. Read more?
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