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.
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.
ImmobiCUFF, a medtech startup founded by five biomedical engineering alumni from the University of California, Davis, believes it has a solution designed to replace shoulder slings.
Fourth-year Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Eden Winslow won first place at the UC Davis Grad Slam Semi-Final round on Friday, April 3, 2026. Her winning presentation "Born Without a Hand: Changing the Narrative of Children's Prostheses" earned her a $5,000 first prize.
Ramsey Badawi, one of the co-inventors of the world’s first total-body PET Scanner, has earned the highest honor from IEEE, bestowed upon fewer than 0.1% of its members each year.
