News
September 15, 2006
Shu Chien named to Y.C. Fung Endowed Chair in Bioengineering
UCSD today announced that Shu Chien has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Y.C. Fung Endowed Chair in Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Chien, director of the UCSD Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering and former chair of the Jacobs School of Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, is a world leader in understanding how blood flow and pressure affect blood vessels. Full Story
August 7, 2006
Researchers Devise New Tools to Help Pinpoint Treatments for Heart Failure
UCSD scientists studying heart cells have devised a new way to visualize and quantify the rise and fall in the activity of a key enzyme linked to heart failure, offering them a window to the inner workings of heart cells that is expected to help in the development of more effective drugs to treat heart failure. Full Story
July 12, 2006
Beyond Lipids: Understanding the Mechanics of Atherosclerosis
A study in the October issue of Cellular Signalling by a team of UCSD scientists reports that the type of mechanical stretching found at branches of blood vessels activates a cellular protein known to damage cells. The report is the first to link mechanical forces with structural and biochemical changes in blood vessel cells that could explain why atherosclerotic lesions form preferentially at branches of coronary arteries. Full Story
June 16, 2006
Cells Use Mix-and-Match Approach to Tailor Regulation of Genes
Pharmaceutical companies are hoping to develop drugs that selectively block the binding of transcription factors to upstream sequences of genes as a way to short-circuit the harmful effects of diseases, and researchers at the University of California, San Diego on June 16 reported new findings that could aid that effort. Full Story
May 22, 2006
UC San Diego's Entrepreneurism Center Funds Nine New Faculty Projects for Technology Commercialization
UCSD's von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement has awarded approximately $430,000 to nine projects led by faculty from the Jacobs School of Engineering. The projects include a bioengineered treatment for anemia; and a miniature camera for certain types of minimally invasive surgery. Full Story
May 18, 2006
Cell, Heal Thyself: New Systems Biology Model Reveals How Cells Repair DNA Damage
Researchers at UCSD and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. The group led by UCSD bioengineering professor Trey Ideker describe in the May 19 issue of Science an elaborate system of gene control that is triggered by chemical damage to DNA. Full Story
April 24, 2006
Shu Chien Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Shu Chien is one of six scholars from the University of California, San Diego named today as Fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chien directs the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering and is a university professor of bioengineering and medicine. Full Story
April 18, 2006
UCSD Joins MentorNet, Connecting Students with Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry and Academia
UCSD has become a partner in MentorNet, a program that uses email to facilitate one-on-one mentoring relationships between successful engineers, scientists and mathematicians, and college students who aspire to careers in those fields. Full Story
April 14, 2006
UC San Diego Scientists Chart Rapid Advances of Fluorescent Tools for Life-Science Research
An interdisciplinary team of biological imaging experts including Bioengineering adjunct professor Mark Ellisman has published a review of fluorescent imaging technologies in the life sciences, featured on the cover of the journal Science. Full Story