BIC was originally conceived in August 1999 during a gathering of bioengineering leadership from several UC campuses celebrating the 80th birthday of UCSD's Bioengineering Program founder, Professor Yuan-Cheng (Bert) Fung. The group met in the UCSD Faculty club and agreed that a unifying organization to synergize the already blossoming...
Professor Shu Chien, Director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, was recently named Chief Engineer of the 2013 San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering, to take place on March 16-23. Read the full article here.
A collaboration among members of the National Chiao Tung University, UCSD and the Army Research Lab (ARL) has been highlighted by the U.S. Army as an outstanding success. The announcement follows the group's publication of a special section, "Neurotechnological Systems: The Brain-Computer Interface," in the Centennial Celebration issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. The news was relayed by Dr. Kaleb McDowell, Chief of the Translational Neuroscience Branch of the Army Research Laboratory, to members of the collaboration.
Dr. Ratnesh Lal, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, and a Co-Director of IEM’s Center for Multiscale Imaging of Living Systems, was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his contributions towards the advancement of science and its applications. The announcement was made in the November 30, 2012 issue of Science.
Professor Lal is an authority on biomedical applications of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale imaging of complex biological systems and has...