Underrepresented students will participate in carefully designed summer research and educational activities at UC Riverside

The honor is considered one of the highlights of a recipient’s career

Infants and young children with motor delays may soon be able to wear robotic helpers

Former Bioengineering Instructor Dr. Christine Burch has been selected as one of ten 2021 NASA Astronaut Candidates. Christine lectured for UCR during the 2015 -2016 academic year and was a dynamo. At the undergraduate level, Christine taught lower level undergraduate design, biomedical optical imaging, biotechnology and biomolecular bioengineering and quantitative physiology. She also team-taught senior design and created a special topics course on automating biochemical testing. At the graduate level she taught effective writing. Christine was clearly enthusiastic about preparing students to

The adhesive would replace stitches and conventional adhesive to speed healing and reduce complications and cost

How Toni Morrison helped an economics professor turn grief into art

The number shatters UCR’s record for CAREER Awards set only last year

Giulia Palermo, an assistant professor of bioengineering at UC Riverside, has won the 2020 Corwin Hansch Award, given by the Hansch-Fujita Foundation each year to a scholar under the age of 40 for significant contributions to the field of computational drug design. Palermo, who leads a computational bioengineering group interested in biophysical studies of gene editing tools, will receive the award on September 22nd at the Virtual Award Session of the annual Gordon Research Conferences on Computer-Aided Drug Design. The award is named in honor of Corwin Hansch, a pioneer in computational drug

“Airhead” robot uses pneumatic RAM to play piano

Dr. Noshadi’s research entails the development of biomaterials for biomedical device fabrication. His doctoral thesis focused on developing poly ionic liquid (PIL) porous materials for the catalytic transformation of biomass to biochemical molecules. During his postdoctoral research, he accumulated in-depth knowledge and experience in tissue engineering and biomaterials to develop vascularized tissue substitutes. He designed hydrogels with biomedical requisites for tissue regeneration that led to patented technologies. The BioGels platforms he built balance opposing properties, such as

Congratulations to Dr. Robert McKee for being promoted to Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment (LPSOE). Dr. McKee joined the Deprtment of Bioengineering three years ago as a Lecturer 1. Since then he has helped advance both the quantity and quality of undergraduate instruction in the program. We wish him the very best in his continued success!

Professor Vasileios Christopoulos is working on less-invasive technology that could eventually improve robotic assistive devices for motor-impaired people by reading their minds— sort of. Read more.