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UC San Diego Bioengineering @ucsdbe

UC San Diego Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering improving health and quality of life by applying engineering principles to scientific discovery.

Joined October 2009
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📢🔬 UC San Diego Chien‑Lay Dept. of Bioengineering is hiring a temporary, non‑tenure‑track lecturer (Unit 18) for Fall 2026 to teach Scientific Ethics (BENG 292) Apply & Details👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF045… #UCSD #Bioengineering #AcademicJobs #ScientificEthics #HiringNow

Temporary Lecturer - Scientific Ethics for the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Team Led by UC San Diego Researchers Selected for Prestigious Global Cancer Prize today.ucsd.edu/story/team-le…

Team Led by UC San Diego Researchers Selected for Prestigious Global Cancer Prize

With up to $25 million from Cancer Grand Challenges, an international team led by UC San Diego professor Ludmil Alexandrov will unlock the secrets of DNA's

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🦠By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs today.ucsd.edu/story/by-buil… 🧬💡 #ComputationalBiology #SyntheticBiology #UCSDResearch

By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs

Bioengineers are creating comprehensive digital twins of bacterial cells to understand more about how to engineer strains that can sustainably produce valuable chemicals, as well as understand the...

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🌟Congrats to Prof. Palsson and campus colleagues Prof. Liu and Prof. Saltiel ! Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 🔬today.ucsd.edu/story/three-u…

Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

Three professors at the University of California San Diego have been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Ping Liu, Bernhard Palsson and Alan Saltiel. They...

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21 Oct 2025
👇👇👇👇Just Released👇👇👇👇 The 2025 Impact Report for @UCSDJacobs's Chien-Lay Department of #Bioengineering is out!!!! Amazing updates from @ucsdbe students, faculty, and staff. #TritonPride heyzine.com/flip-book/93cd25…

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Kolade Adebowale, Ph.D.@KoladeAdebowal1
11 Nov 2025
We had our inaugural "4th floor Friendsgiving". Many thanks to Drs. Vira Kravets and Erika Cyphert for helping organize. Love the Snoopy with a scarf background pic. Looking forward to growing our community of Bioengineers on the 4th floor. 😎 @ucsdbe
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Kolade Adebowale, Ph.D.@KoladeAdebowal1
15 Oct 2025
Had a fantastic time at the 2025 BMES annual conference, meeting, catching up, and celebrating mentors, friends, and students. #BMES2025.
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🔬Join us on Oct 8, 2025, for this year’s Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Alliance (BME-IDEA) Meeting with @Venturewell Register today: bit.ly/40AvHVD
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📢🔬Hiring! The Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering is seeking Research Scientists (Assistant, Associate, or Full level) in Bioengineering. Apply now apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF042… #Bioengineering #ResearchScientist #UCSD

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Adam J. Engler@AdamEnglerUCSD
14 Jun 2025
***Huge congratulations*** to 111 M.S. and M.Eng. graduates from the Chien-Lay Department of #Bioengineering (@ucsdbe) and the @UCSDJacobs. #Tritons2025 #Graduation 🎓 Up next: 131 B.S. graduates on Saturday/Sunday and 28 Ph.D. graduates on Sunday!
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🔬Research from the Aguado Lab ! Recognizing Sex Differences in Disease Can Improve Treatments for All today.ucsd.edu/story/recogni…

Recognizing Sex Differences in Disease Can Improve Treatments for All

A new study shows that drug treatment outcomes are significantly different for a type of heart valve disease based on how the disease progresses in males versus females. An AI-derived digital...

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🔬🎉Congrats to Dr. John Watson! Named Recipient of the Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Development of Artificial Organ Technologies einpresswire.com/article/812… via @ein_news

Dr. John Watson Named Recipient of the Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award

The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) presented the 2025 Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Development of

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🔬Congrats to UC San Diego Bioengineering alumna Dr. April Aralar, '22 @FraleyLab on her recent publication! Proud of the impact our BioEng Tritons are making #UCSDBioengineering #TritonPride #WomenInStem
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#LegacyContent: Universal Digital High-Resolution Melt Analysis for the Diagnosis of #Bacteremia. Authors from @UCSanDiego @ucsdbe @NMC_SD @UofUMedicine and @radychildrens. Free in the #OpenArchive: jmdjournal.org/article/S1525…
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Our new paper on A Clearer Look at Diabetic Kidney Disease today.ucsd.edu/story/a-clear…

A Clearer Look at Diabetic Kidney Disease via New Optical Imaging Technology

Researchers have developed a powerful new way to look inside kidney tissues, without needing to stain or damage the tissue samples. The new technique reveals early signs of disease often missed by...

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🤩🔬Empower the next generation of bioengineers to revolutionize healthcare and transform lives. Every gift counts, from $5 to $500 or more. Give today and make a difference! #TritonGivingDay #Bioengineering tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/cam…
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30 Apr 2025
Using bacteria as living test tubes to study human gene mutations and find new drug leads 🚀📷 UCSD Today Story: bit.ly/4jWn0MM Paper: bit.ly/4jsSpqc @ucsdbe @UCSDJacobs #Bioengineering #DrugDiscovery

Using Bacteria as Living Test Tubes to Study Human Gene Mutations and Find New Drug Leads

Traditional methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes and...

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UC San Diego bioengineers @ChristmanLab & chemists at Northwestern University, have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing & prevent heart failure. today.ucsd.edu/story/this-in… #Bioengineering #HeartHealth #UCSD

This Injected Protein-like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to...

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✨🧬UC San Diego Bioengineering Prof. Sheng Zhong led a study that found a gene thought to be a biomarker for Alzheimer's is actually a cause of it due to its secondary function.🔬 today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-help… #Bioengineering #AlzheimersResearch #UCSanDiego
The study co-authors (from left to right) Sheng Zhong, Junchen Chen, Wenxin Zhao, Ming Xu, Shuanghong Xue, Zhixuan Song and Fatemeh Hadi

ALT The study co-authors (from left to right) Sheng Zhong, Junchen Chen, Wenxin Zhao, Ming Xu, Shuanghong Xue, Zhixuan Song and Fatemeh Hadi

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🔬🦠An international research effort led by UC San Diego bioengineers has uncovered that DNA mutations arising during early childhood from a bacterial toxin called colibactin are a potential cause today.ucsd.edu/story/childho… #Bioengineering #ColorectalCancer #CancerResearch

Childhood Exposure to Bacterial Toxin May Be Triggering Colorectal Cancer Epidemic Among the Young

Researchers have identified a potential culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Exposure to colibactin in early childhood imprints...

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Adam J. Engler@AdamEnglerUCSD
2 Apr 2025
Congrats to @Daniela_ValdezJ on her @aimbe induction! Well deserved! Your @ucsdbe and @UCSDJacobs colleagues are very proud of your amazing #PAH research.
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