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Through a capstone design project, students work alongside clinicians, engineers and business mentors to translate healthcare challenges into market-ready technologies, gaining experience in the clinical, regulatory and business aspects that underpin successful medical device development.

The Outstanding Staff Award celebrates individuals who consistently perform above and beyond expectations with exceptional service, innovative approaches, community engagement and commitment to the college's community core values and diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Royal Society, the oldest continually operating scientific academy in the world, has elected Simon R. Cherry, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering and radiology at the University of California, Davis, to the level of fellow.

Regina Rajbanshi has always been fascinated by math and biology as tools for understanding and explaining the world with clarity. At UC Davis, her curiosity led her to discover where they intersect as a biomedical engineer.

UC Davis Mike and Renée Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded nearly $100,000 at the 26th annual Big Bang! Business Competition, with the top prize going to First Bite, a biomedical engineering student team developing a safer device to secure breathing tubes for infants.

Through clinical shadowing, hands-on engineering and industry collaboration, two graduate students share how clinicians, engineers and industry professionals have equipped them with the necessary tools to take a medical device from idea to a clinical application advancing human health.

The UC Davis Professional Master’s Program in Medical Device Development (MDD) invites applications for instructional positions in a three-course “Engineering Skills” sequence offered across Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. These graduate-level, hands-on courses are taught in person at the UC Davis Tech Foundry in Aggie Square (Sacramento, CA) and serve a cohort of approximately 10–15 students per quarter.

With federal funding, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Aidan Gilchrist leads a new research program to understand how the tissue surrounding a cell plays a vital role in normal and abnormal cellular metabolism states, and therefore in creating well-being or disease.

Maury Hull, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award from Carnegie Mellon University for his exceptional leadership in building the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering.

The Distinguished Research Professor of biomedical engineering has received the 2026 ESMI Award from the European Society for Molecular Imaging. Among the most prestigious honors in imaging science, the award celebrates a researcher for their outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary field.