Berkeley Bioengineer

It’s official: UC Berkeley Engineering has a new dean! Mark Asta, a distinguished materials scientist and a UC Berkeley faculty member for more than 15 years, will lead our college after a competitive national search. bit.ly/4sSMsIc

New work from @arkin_lab, funded by the HHS, have engineered colonies of bacteria that can be inhaled to crowd out pathogenic bacteria without antibiotics. @Cal_Engineer Learn more at bit.ly/3YCNuug

Congratulations to bioengineering MD/PhD candidate Alice Tang, named to the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30! forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

Profs Paul Adams, Adam Arkin, Patrick Hsu & Jay Keasling made the Clarivate 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list! clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…

Published today in @natBME, Healy and Murthy labs' heart-on-a-chip + lipid nanoparticles discovers ways to effectively deliver gene therapies to the heart. engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/11/h…

Good news for the future of adaptable oat cultivation! Adjunct Taner Sen and colleagues have assembled and annotated 33 wild oat genomes and an atlas of gene expression. sci.news/genetics/oat-p…

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Exciting new research from Prof Michael Yartsev!

Bioengineer Maria Astolfi is working to bring equity to the sharing of indigenous biomedical knowledge

Congratulations to the 12 incoming, continuing, graduating and alumni BioE Bears receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!

Congratulations Prof Aaron Streets, just inducted as a new 2025 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Congratulations Professor Phil Messersmith, named a 2024 Fellow of AAAS! tinyurl.com/2025aaasbioe

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Join us! Bioengineering is recruiting a part-time lecturer: bioeng.berkeley.edu/people/lecturer

Amazing advances from Prof. Patrick Hsu!

Congratulations to Professor David Schaffer on his election to the National Academy of Engineering!