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| Bioengineering |
New Department Initiate its First Graduate Class, Hires 3 New Faculty
Eighteen
New Graduate Students Move to Stanford
As an incoming class, they are a stellar example of what disciplines lead careers in Bioengineering. From University of Pennsylvania to Queen's University to Berkeley, they trained in various areas of study all of which led them to Stanford.
Faculty Join Department
Stephen Quake, of CalTech, joins Stanford Bioengineering Faculty
Stephen
Quake's interests lie at the intersection of physics, biology and biotechnology.
His group at CalTech pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large
Scale Integration, demonstrating the first integrated microfluidic devices
with thousands of mechanical valves. This technology is helping to pave
the way for large scale automation of biology at the nanoliter scale,
and he and his students have been exploring applications of "lab
on a chip" technology in functional genomics, genetic analysis,
and structural biology. Quake is also active in the field of single molecule
biophysics; in 2003 his group demonstrated the first successful single
molecule DNA sequencing experiments.
Bioengineering recruits Jennifer Cochran
from MIT
The department is fortunate to have also recruited Dr. Cochran from the Wittrub Lab at MIT where she was doing a postdoc in protein expression. In particular, her work involved engineering epidermal growth factor as well as the identification and characterization of EGFR-specific antibodies by yeast surface display.
Karl Deisseroth joins as Assistant Professor
Research
in Dr. Deisseroth's laboratory focuses on developing molecular and cellular
tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits He obtained
an AB from Harvard and received his MD/PhD in Neurosciences from Stanford
University.
Deisseroth receives Culpeper Scholar Award
Dr. Karl Deisseroth has been named one of three academic physicians in the United States to receive a prestigious Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science, a program designed to support the career development of academic physicians. The Charles E. Culpeper Medical Scholar award is given on behalf of carefully selected physicians of high potential achievement who are committed to careers in academic medicine.
Bioengineering Faculty garner BISTI grant
The
National Institutes of Health have awarded a 20 million dollar grant
to the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. This grant
has been awarded to help build the computational infrastructure for the
nation's biomedical community. The Department of Bioengineering has been
chosen to act as a National Center for Simulation of Biological Structures.
Researchers hope to develop and share a simulation tookit (SimTK) that
will enable users to create and visualize models and simulations of biological
structures at all physical scales from atoms to organisms. Professors
Russ Altman and Scott Delp direct the new center.
Department Opens Doors in New Building
Clark Center has Inter-disciplinary Focus
Bioengineering
is housed in the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering,
located at the nexus of the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Humanities & Sciences.
The Clark Center, a new 225,000 sq. ft. science building, also is the
hub of the broad Bio-X program, and brings together many disciplines
under one roof.
Bio-X is an interdisciplinary program focused on promoting collaborative research in the biosciences. By accelerating the partnerships between biologists, clinicians, engineers, chemists, physicists and computer scientists, Bio-X creates a fertile ground for discovery, invention and education.
Dr. Blemker wins ASB
Pre-Doctoral Young Scientist Award
Dr. Silvia Blemker, Research Associate in Bioengineering, is the winner of this year's ASB Young Scientist Award. Professor Joan E. Bechtold, chair of the ASB Awards Committee, told reporters "There were many excellent applicants, but the Awards Committee selected Blemker's application as overall winner of the highest quality." Blemker heard the good news from her hotel in Paris.
First NIH Director's Pioneer Award Recipients Named
Dr. Stephen Quake, Professor of Bioengineering, was recently selected as a recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, in the first year of the award.
Over 300 Apply for 05-06 Academic Year
More than 300 outstanding bioengineers filed applications for admission into the Bioengineering department for the coming academic year. Of this number, 22 have been invited to interview for potential graduate student positions.
Professor
Greg Kovacs, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, has been working
with staff over the past year to develop a new core curriculum for the
Department’s graduate program. The team also included
Jonathan Sorger, Joy Ku, Daniel Kraft and Carmen Robinett. The core
courses BioE 200 A, B and C cover Molecular and Cellular Engineering;
Systems Biology & Tissue Engineering; Medical Devices, Diagnostics
and Pharmaceuticals: Technologies, Regulation and Applications. Kovacs
also teaches the courses which began in Fall, 2004.
Other News
Seminar Series
The spring quarter Bioengineering & Biodesign Seminar will feature
the next round of faculty applicants for Bioengineering.
Yock@Whitaker Summit
Dr. Paul Yock, Co-Chair of Bioengineering, was invited to attend the
final Whitaker Summit in March, 2005. All Universities with a BME program
were asked to send one or two faculty members to represent their Universities.
Dr. Yock was also asked to give a presentation during the plenary session
on “Design in Biomedical Engineering.”
Scott leads Bio-X
Matthew Scott, Professor of Developmental Biology and Bioengineering,
also chairsthe Leadership Council for Bio-X.
New Website
Bioengineering has launched a new website that features information
about the core curriculum, educational requirements, research, faculty
and other relevant material.
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