The Quarter at Aggie Square Biomedical Engineering cohort wrapped up their 10-week experience with a presentation of three medical prototypes for growth-accommodating heart valves, noninvasive glucose monitors and stroke-detection devices. The students chose the concepts to solve complex health challenges they encountered.
Biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Ekaterina Shanina discusses her experience as a first-time conference presenter at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, where she received a prestigious award for her research in positron emission tomography.
The College of Engineering alum and staff member discusses her path to engineering, how industry experience prepared her for her current role with the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine Lab and the importance of a strong engineering community for growth and innovation.
Graduate student Xiaoyu Duan shares how her experience at the 2024 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference gave her a fresh perspective on research: discussing ideas with others enriches both the research and the researcher.
Every winter, influenza returns with a new variant. People who have previously been infected with or vaccinated against flu may have some protection, but this depends on how well their immune system’s “memory” of the previous virus or vaccine cross-reacts with the new variant. At present, there is no good way to measure this.
Bruce Tromberg, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, was the guest speaker for the 15th annual Maroney-Bryan Lecture in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He discussed medical and engineering partnerships and the bright future for next-level engineering solutions in healthcare, particularly at UC Davis.
Cheemeng Tan and Sean Collins, associate professors at UC Davis, are part of a national effort to develop a novel device for inflammatory bowel disease. The technology will function like a pharmacy inside the body, producing and releasing engineered cells as a real-time response to flare-ups.
Fifth-year biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Ben Mattison has found the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine Lab an invaluable resource for realizing his research that eyes new territory in microscopy.
Michael Savageau is a distinguished professor emeritus in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. His work examines the function, design and evolution of cellular and molecular networks. Savageau helped pioneer quantitative systems biology, where he characterized the design principles for gene circuits that impact cellular behavior.
Kittens and engineering may seem like an unsuitable pair, but a recent collaboration between a professor of veterinary medicine and the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine Lab at UC Davis proves otherwise.
The Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine Lab has contributed to a collaborative project to improve surgical procedures using augmented reality goggles.
Abigail Humphries is working on a National Institutes of Health-funded project to improve health outcomes of spina bifida at the University of California, Davis — where she was treated for the condition as a newborn over twenty years ago.
The UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering is launching a new nine-month master's degree program in medical device development at Aggie Square, the expansive innovation district the university will open in Sacramento in 2025.
New Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Alba Alfonso García is fascinated by the power of photonics to clarify complex biological issues. As a UC Davis researcher, she innovates biophotonic imaging technologies and translates these advancements into tools for medical professionals.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yi Xue has received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, which celebrates early-career researchers who demonstrate outstanding potential to advance biological research, for her program to advance microscopic techniques in deep tissue imaging.
