Development engineers and a biomedical engineering graduate student from the University of California, Davis, were part of a study granting scientists a rare glimpse into how the human brain navigates space. This research could be the foundation of future treatments for debilitating conditions like dementia.
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.
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.
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.
