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.
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.
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.
How does skin hold you in? How do heart cells beat together? Researchers at the University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, are exploring how structures called desmosomes, which stick cells together, function and react to mechanical stress.
Matthew Paszek, a new professor of biomedical engineering at UC Davis, researches at the forefront of glycoscience, a developing field that explores glycan, the sugary third chain of life. Paszek’s research has shown that glycan is a major contributor to the development of aggressive forms of cancer.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Aijun Wang heads a cross-disciplinary team from UC Davis Health, the MIND Institute and UC Berkeley’s Murthy Lab to design and test a potential cure for Dup15q syndrome, a condition linked to autism, epilepsy and severe intellectual disability.
Using total-body PET imaging to get a better understanding of long COVID disease is the goal of a new project at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with UC San Francisco. The project is funded by a grant of $3.2 million over four years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
In a world first, researchers have shown brain-computer interfaces for speech can also enable control of a computer cursor. The research is a significant step forward and points to a future where people with paralysis can gain a level of autonomy previously thought impossible.
Ekaterina Shanina, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has won the Physics in Medicine & Biology Early Career Researcher Award for her research paper describing a novel brain phantom for positron emission tomography (PET).
