The Cube³ Lab, part of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has developed a new course for first-year students to build community as they learn about and find solutions to the issues women face in engineering.
Janet Kwon is a doctoral student driven by research that advances human health and improves the treatment of animals at the same time. We spoke with Kwon to learn more about her organ-on-a-chip research and the significance of pursuing scientific work that is personally fulfilling.
The annual UC Davis event, hosted by the Biomedical Engineering Society and the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine Lab, allows undergraduates to apply their engineering skills and receive hands-on experience in product design and prototyping.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anna Kolesov, who graduated with a bachelor's in biomedical engineering in June, has received the 2024 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research from the University of California, Davis.
