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.
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.
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.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Aijun Wang is part of a UC Davis Health research team that has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial.
Julie L. Sutcliffe, co-director for the UC Davis Center of Molecular and Genomic Imaging and a professor of medicine and biomedical engineering, will lead a team advancing cancer research through the development of special imaging tools capable of detecting cancerous cells in the pancreas.
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.
Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a platform to isolate the surface proteins of extracellular vesicles, the body’s biological messaging system. This research is a significant step toward building tools that transform extracellular vesicles into next-generation drugs for cancer and other diseases.
The UC Davis biomedical engineering professor has received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s annual award for outstanding innovation and research contributions in medical imaging science. It is considered one of the highest honors in the field.
