News Archive
January 10, 2005
Entrepreneurism Center Funds New Projects from All Five UCSD Engineering Departments
The William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement has awarded more than $300,000 to eight projects led by faculty members of the Jacobs School of Engineering, to help commercialize innovations developed in their labs. It is the Center's sixth round of funding, and for the first time, all five Jacobs School departments were represented among the researchers leading the winning projects. Full Story
December 1, 2004
Nanogen Funding Advances Nanotech Research
Released December 01, 2004 by Nanogen--Nanogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: NGEN), developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it has agreed to provide $300,000 of funding over a two-year period to support the nanotechnology research of Michael Heller, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and cofounder of Nanogen. Full Story
October 15, 2004
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Wins 2004 Packard Foundation Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Trey Ideker, an assistant professor at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, as one of this year’s 16 recipients of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Ideker and each of the other fellows will receive unrestricted research grants of $625,000 over five years. Full Story
May 5, 2004
UCSD Bioengineers Develop First Genome-Scale Model of Gene Regulation
San Diego, CA, May 5, 2004-- It has taken more than 50 years to accumulate the current body of knowledge on Escherichia coli, a bacterium which is one of the best studied organisms in biology. Now, bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have integrated this knowledge into the first genome-scale model of the gene regulatory system in E.coli. The computational model helps to define the rules governing cell function and quickly enabled an exponential increase in the understanding of the regulatory system in E. coli. Their work, which is published in the May 6, 2004 issue of Nature, represents a new way to systematically drive biological discovery Full Story
March 31, 2004
UC San Diego Bioinformatics Experts Help Reconstruct the Genomic Makeup of our Ancestors as International Consortium Completes Rat Genome Sequencing
San Diego, CA, March 31, 2004 -- Scientists have generated and begun to analyze the rat genome, paving the way for comparisons with the two other mammalian genomes sequenced so far -- human, and mouse. The primary results of the Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium (RGSPC) are presented in the April 1 issue of Nature, and an additional thirty manuscripts describing further detailed analyses are contained in the April issue of the journal Genome Research. Full Story
March 23, 2004
UCSD and SDSC to Host National Computational Molecular Biology Meetings
San Diego, CA, March 23, 2004 -- Faculty and researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) are preparing to host what has become one of the most influential conferences in the world dealing with bioinformatics. This year's Research in Computational Molecular Biology -- RECOMB 2004 for short -- will take place March 27-31 in San Diego (http://recomb04.sdsc.edu/), and will feature the best research in bioinformatics, combined with invited talks from experimental biologists. "This is a scientific forum for theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine," says UCSD pharmacology professor Philip Bourne, who is Director of Integrative Biosciences at SDSC and also Conference General Chair of RECOMB 2004. "The origins of the conference came from the mathematical and computational side of the field, but the effective use of computational techniques for biological innovation is also an important aspect of the conference." SDSC took the lead in sponsoring the 2004 conference. Full Story
March 1, 2004
Founder of UCSD Bioengineering Program Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from Asian American Engineers
San Diego, CA, Monday, March 1, 2004 -- A Chinese engineer who came to the United States right after World War II and went on to do pioneering research in aeronautics and bioengineering has been honored by his fellow Asian American engineers. On Feb. 28, Yuan-Cheng Fung received the Distinguished Life Time Achievement Award at the 2004 CIE EWEEK Asian American Engineer of the Year Award Banquet in Santa Clara, CA. Full Story
Nanoscale Bumps and Grooves Trigger Big Changes in Cell Behavior
The surfaces that cells come into contact with can influence how the cells grow, function, and communicate – shaping metabolism and even cellular health. Now, bioengineering and nano engineering researchers at UC San Diego have developed a platform for studying the ways that nanoscale growing surfaces can impact cellular behavior. Full Story