UCLA Department of Bioengineering

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The Department of Bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering invites highly qualified applications for tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level. The Department seeks candidates with a Ph.D. in Bioengineering or a closely related discipline at date of hire with an excellent track record of innovation, and exceptional potential to direct a world-class, highly collaborative research program in any area of bioengineering. In particular, the Department is interested in candidates focusing on immunoengineering, computational molecular design, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in biology and medicine.

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) at UCLA is pleased to accept the BMES Outstanding Achievement award, which is the highest chapter award on offer. This award is given to highlight chapters with outstanding leadership and immeasurable growth across social activities, mentorship, fundraising, community outreach, and industry partnerships. Congrats ! To read more, click the link in our story highlights!

Dean Alissa Park of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has announced the appointment of Professor Dino Di Carlo as the new Chair of the Bioengineering department, effective July 1, 2024. Professor Di Carlo brings with him a wealth of expertise and a distinguished academic career that promises to further elevate UCLA’s leadership in the field of bioengineering. Congrats to Prof. Di Carlo! 🎉 To read more, read the article on our story highlights!

On Wednesday, June 5th, the UCLA chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) hosted the 2024 Technical Projects Symposium showcasing BMES’s student-led projects. The BMES Technical Projects Build Team, Cell Team, Design Team, and Research Team all serve to give students hands-on, team-based engineering experience through a year-long project. Congrats to all participants! To read more, please click the link in the story highlights!

On Thursday, May 23rd, the UCLA Bioengineering department held the last social of the academic year to celebrate the class of 2024! We would like to give big thank you to all the faculty, students, and staff who made this event so wonderful and memorable! To see more images from the event, check out the link on our story highlight!

as the quarter is now ending & commencement ceremonies are rolling around, we would like highlight and congratulate our graduate students commencement awardees! Congratulations on your achievements during your time as a BioE graduate student! To see the full list of awardees, please click the link in our story highlights!

Congratulations to our undergraduate BioE commencement awardees, we are so proud of your hard work!! We can’t wait to see what you do next! 🎓

Check out our student organizations BGA and BMES latest outreach efforts! BGA partnered with BMES to give undergraduate and graduate students a career development opportunity with a behind-the-scenes tour at Edward Life Sciences’ Irvine headquarters. BGA also participated in the combined LA Maker Faire and City of STEM event and local school college fair to promote interest in STEM within the greater Los Angeles community.

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Congrats to the Samueli 2024 Rising Professional Achievement awardee co-founder and CTO of Cytovale Henry Tse M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’12 of !
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On April 13th, the Samueli School of Engineering held the Discover Engineering event during the campus wide Bruin Day event for all students who have been admitted to UCLA as freshmen. This event allowed those attending to interact with our student clubs and organizations at the Court of Sciences and meet with current engineering undergraduates, faculty and staff.

On April 2nd, 2024, UCLA Graduate Division () hosted its annual GradSlam competition. This year, a Bioengineering graduate student, Soulaimane Bentaleb, was one of the finalists for the competition and won 2nd place overall! Congratulations to Soulaimane on this great achievement! To read more about Soulaimane’s Grad Slam experience, click the link in our story highlights!

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We’re SOOOO excited to announce UCLA’s 2024 finalists!

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Looking forward to your final presentations on April 2, 2024, at the Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center

During week 10, the Bioengineering department held the annual undergraduate Capstone Design Symposium in which the graduating senior class got to present the projects they have been working on this academic year. Thank you to all the faculty and graduate students who supported the students and assisted in their projects! Congratulations to everyone who participated & to the 2 teams (Team D (oral presentation winners) and Team I (poster presentation winners)) who won!

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To enable speaking without vocal cords, asst. prof. Jun Chen of led research published in Nature Communications on a small, self-powered, wearable bioelectronics that can translate larynx muscle movement into speech.

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Congratulations to our newly admitted graduate students! We were happy to host you last week during our open house events. Thank you for visiting UCLA and we hope to see you in the Fall as Bruins! 🐻💙💛

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announced a $4M grant to support multi-institutional research on cell behaviors and their relation to immunity. Prof. Dino Di Carlo will lead the LA team’s research.

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Last Friday February 16, the Bioengineering department and BGA hosted its annual Research Day event. Congratulations to all our oral and poster award winners! And thank you to everyone who attended and participated!

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Posting on behalf of BMES: Tour bioengineering labs that you are interested in joining and get to talk to graduate students! Upcoming tours include Professor Kamei and Professor DiCarlo. Please fill out the interest form to stay updated! Hosted by BMES.

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Having difficulties figuring out what you want to do after graduation? Need help finding an internship? Need career advice? Our career panel will be a great opportunity to meet the IAB mentors and have a better idea of who you want to be paired with! Please come if you would like an industry mentor! Hosted by BMES.

Congratulations to Prof. Liang Gao for being elected as a fellow of Optica, an international professional society for advancing optics and photonics! If you want to read more, click the link on our story & ‘Newsroom’ highlight.

Happy holidays! One of the greatest joys of this season is the opportunity to say THANK YOU for being a part of the UCLA Bioengineering department! We wish you a joyous holiday season with your loved ones, and we look forward to seeing you in the new year! 🎄☃️

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Congrats to Profs. Eric Chiou of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Paul Weiss , as well as chemistry Prof. Xiangfeng Duan, on being elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Last week on December 1st, 2023, the BioE department hosted a Holiday Party at the Engineering VI First Floor Patio from 12-2pm! The festivities included a holiday lunch buffet, games, music, and raffle. Faculty and students had so much fun competing in games such as a Candy Cane relay race and Candy Cane ring toss! They also contributed to decorating the BE Christmas tree by adding notes of gratitude and wishes for the new year! 🎁🎄🎉

Clarivate released its list of 2023 Highly Cited Researchers, including 5 faculty members from the Bioengineering department. Congratulations to you all!

The UCLA Bioengineering department would like to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy this time with your loved ones and we will see you soon! 🦃🍂

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Congrats to Asst. Profs. Sergio Carbajo and Jun Chen receiving Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Awards. Each will get a 3-year, $750,000 grant supporting laser and sensor research, respectively.

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Binru “Andy” Chen, who received his Ph.D. in bioengineering earlier this year, is looking to democratize cell therapy for cancer patients with his prize-winning startup SparkGene Biotechnology, which he launched as a graduate student.

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Yesterday, BE had a spook-tacular social! 👻 Thank you to all those who joined our festivities yesterday and participated in awesome costumes, creative games, and raffle! We hope you had a Happy Halloween! 🎃

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Andrew Ramirez, a Ph.D. student and member of Prof. Aaron Meyer’s lab, received a EDI Student Leadership Award for his commitment to empowering and others underrepresented in .

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