February 10, 2012
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected Professor Juan Lasheras as a new member of the prestigious Academy. Professor Lasheras is the Stanford and Beverly Penner Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering. He is also the director of the IEM Center for Medical Device and Instrumentation (CMDI) and holds over 40 Patents in medical instruments. He was cited for his studies of atomization, turbulent mixing, and heat transfer and for the development of medical devices. Dr. Lasheras has worked at the intersection of engineering, biology, and medicine discovering new scientific principles and technologies. He has made seminal contributions to the biomechanical basis of arterial aneurysms and the impact aneurysms have on blood flow, total body hypothermia for surgery and treatment of stroke, molecular and mechanical mechanisms of cell migration, and the control and regulation of intracellular rheology in response to imposed mechanical stresses. His innovations and designs are used in surgery and medicine throughout the world.
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December 09, 2011
Genomatica has won the CONNECT Most Innovative New Product Award in the Clean Technology category. Genomatica’s biotechnological innovations have lead to economically efficient and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes for creating the basic chemicals and ingredients that constitute nearly all of our consumer and industrial products. San Diego’s premier non-profit entrepreneur organization, CONNECT, has recognized Genomatica’s innovations with their annual Most Innovative New Product Award. Earlier in the year, Genomatica had been recognized by the national Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) organization with the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the highest honor in green chemistry.
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December 01, 2011
The International Research-Intensive Center of Excellence (I-RiCE) on Advanced Bioengineering held their first International Advisory Committee meeting November 11th at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. This Center is an international collaborative research partnership between UCSD and two universities from the University System of Taiwan (UST, including the National Yang-Ming University and the National Chiao-Tung University). The goal of the Center is to advance the understanding of biological systems from a bioengineering perspective and establish applications in clinical medicine and healthcare. The collaborative efforts will enable researchers across the Pacific to synergize their expertise and activities in biomedical engineering in three major areas: Integrative (molecular and cellular) Bioengineering, Neural Engineering, and Health Translation, with the common goal of conducting discovery and translational research to improve human health. The morning sessions were devoted to fruitful discussions between the investigators from the UST and UCSD on collaborations in the three subprograms corresponding to the focus research areas. The topics ranged from Biophotonics and Cardiovascular Bioengineering to Computational Neuroscience and Wireless Healthcare.
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November 09, 2011
President Obama greets and awards Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science.
President Barack Obama has awarded Dr. Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in an award ceremony that took place Friday, October 21st, 2011, in the White House. In a statement released by the White House, President Obama said, “I’m pleased to recognize these extraordinary scientists, engineers, and inventors for their work exploring the very frontiers of human knowledge and making our world a better place." Dr. Chien’s work has brought the worlds of biology, engineering, and medicine together to greatly advance the treatments for many cardio-related illnesses. President Obama further explained how the research and discoveries of scholars such Dr. Chien has lead to numerous innovations and jobs.
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