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May 16, 2025
Brain Manage
Department of Bioengineering assistant professor Shahab Vahdat uses magnetic resonance imaging and neurostimulation to develop cutting-edge treatments for people who have suffered ischemic strokes.
April 08, 2025
Secrets of their Success
Five bioengineering majors describe the success factors that empowered them to turn their Senior Design project into an award-winning, innovation that could revolutionize hearing-loss diagnostics.
March 24, 2025
The People Behind the Project
A team of bioengineering undergraduates share how the successes they achieved in redesigning an innovative hearing-loss diagnostic tool were made possible through guidance and mentorship from faculty members and real-world feedback and resources from industry.
March 18, 2025
From Prototype to Prime-Time
A team of bioengineering students reveal some of the biggest challenges it faced in transforming a hearing-loss diagnostic tool from a 20-pound device to a redesign weighing less than a pound-and-a-half “that people are excited to use.”
Upcoming and Previous Events
Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Tianhong Dai
May 21, 2025 @ 11:00 am
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95701531703
Antimicrobial blue light inactivation of microbial pathogens: State of the artAlthough microbiologists have been ringing the alarm bell for years, the threat of antibiotic resistance has reached new prominence in the popular press that the issue should be added to the list of global emergencies. It is now indisputable that…
Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Andre Obenaus
May 14, 2025 @ 11:00 am
WCH 205/206
Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease: Vascular Perturbations - Emerging evidence suggests that traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) may share similar pathophysiology including long-term alterations in neurodegeneration and cognition. Vascular perturbations are evident in both neurological…
Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Leah Guthrie
May 07, 2025 @ 11:00 am
Zoom - https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95701531703
Decoding microbiome-dependent metabolite signaling and immune modulation in the kidney - The kidney plays a central role in clearing chemically diverse small molecules from the body, making it a key site of exposure to both endogenous and microbiome-derived metabolites. These exposures can shape disease progression, particularly…
Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Hawa Racine Thiam
April 30, 2025 @ 11:00 am
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“How chromatin regulates the biophysical function of cells - learning from NETosis" - Neutrophils are innate immune cells critical for host defense again pathogens. To accomplish their tasks, neutrophils need to generate, transmit and withstand cell-scale physical forces which allow them to deform, rapidly move, and kill pathogen…
Did You Know?
3.8:1
GRADUATE STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO
20
Core Faculty
50
BIG Faculty
11
FELLOWS OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
10
Affiliated Centers