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In its first year, the UCOP Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards seek to advance the university’s commitment to the scholarship and creative activity of early career faculty across all 10 UC campuses. Engineering professors Hyoyoung Jeong and Jie Zheng help make up the inaugural cohort.

For a moment of pause and community building, the Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted “Art in Science,” an event to highlight the creativity and visual beauty that emerge from its community’s research.

As chair, Sivasankar wants to build on the department’s distinctive strengths to expand its visibility and impact, including its clinical and industry partnerships and presence at Aggie Square, the UC Davis innovation district in Sacramento.

University of California, Davis, researchers have received a nearly $4 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop the world’s first standardized method for measuring and describing the neurotoxicity of nanoplastics inhaled as part of air pollution. 

Meet the engineering undergraduate students working at UC Davis Tech Foundry. In this Q&A, Allen Cooke, David Kou and Haelie Tweet share how they are gaining technical skills while helping transform ideas into real-world solutions. Together, their experiences reflect a new chapter for a space that is actively growing.

This position sits at the boundary of biomaterials, synthetic biology, and cell-based therapeutics. The work is fast-moving, and scholars will have access to a large translational team, industry-facing development, and visibility across institutions.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Aijun Wang co-leads a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test a bioengineered graft infused with molecules to treat neuropathic bladders of children with spina bifida or spinal cord injuries.

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.