A team of seven undergraduates and recent alumni from UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UC Merced won the $5,000 second prize. BME alumni Nick Dao and Lisa Illes, along with current BME major Lillian Eng and Biological Systems Engineering major Alexander Godbout,…
Good Day Sacramento's Bethany Crouch filmed a segment of the show from the Molecular Prototyping and Bioinnovation Lab recently to report on a collaboration there between fashion designer Sacha Laurin, Design professor Christina Cogdell, and TEAM Assistant Director Marc Facciotti.…
Arshia Firouzi and Gurkern Sufi met in 2011 as Freshmen living in Tercero Dormitories at UC Davis and quickly became friends. Arshia majored in Electrical Engineering and Gurkern in Biotechnology, and they worked with the mentorship of Professor Marc Facciotti…
Two Years of Translating Engineering to Medicine By Amy Whitcomb on February 14, 2017 First, a replica of your heart that a doctor can hold in her hands. Next, a living sensor inside your phone that detects nearby pollutants or pathogens. That’s…
Sacramento Bee HEALTHY CHOICES MARCH 28, 2016 4:55 AM New lab can make models of organs based on patient scans Holding physical organ can help doctors plan for surgery Technology is still expensive and rare in hospitals BY SAMMY CAIOLA scaiola@sacbee.com…
When UC Davis Pediatric Heart Center surgeons faced a complex patient case in January, they consulted with cardiologists, pediatric intensive care unit physicians, radiologists, and, for the first time, biomedical engineers. The engineers added a new technology to the clinical…
Ambercycle, a startup run by UC Davis alumni Akshay Sethi and Mubasher Ahmed, has won a Global Change Award, with €250,000 ($281,000) to commercialize their polyester digester—a technology that uses genetically engineered microbes to digest polyester textiles and convert them…
TEAM facilitates research and research collaborations on a continuing basis, addressing large medical problems that extend across the UC Davis College of Engineering, the School of Medicine, and their departments. Beyond campus boundaries, TEAM promotes the translation of technologies into…
The award-winning University of California, Davis (UC Davis) student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) has come up with a unique way to give students hands-on experience implementing a solution to a real world problem: Make it a competition…
A team of seven UC Davis undergraduates successfully won the grand prize in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, which took place Oct. 30 through Nov. 3 at the Hynes Convention Center, in Boston, Mass. This triumph has…
