Announcements

After 12 years as Director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging (CMGI), Dr. Simon Cherry will step down effective July 1st.  Dr. Abhijit Chaudhari (Department of Radiology) will follow him as the new Director of CMGI.

Alyssa Panitch will join the department as Chair of Biomedical Engineering effective June 30, 2016.

Kent Leach has been elected to the Americas Council leadership of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).

He will serve a 3-year term on a body that guides the activities, vision, and mission of the society representing the interests of tissue engineers in the Americas and around the world.

Dr. Jamal Lewis will join the Biomedical Engineering Department at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor this Fall.

Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. degree in 2012, and comes to UC Davis following a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Florida.