Welcome to the Department of Bioengineering

Nearly two decades before the approval of a daily oral GLP-1 pill for weight management, UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao contributed to research demonstrating that a nonpeptide molecule could activate the GLP-1 receptor and produce biological effects in animals.

UC Riverside Associate Professor of Bioengineering Jia Guo has developed a new way to reconstruct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that could improve the reliability of blood flow measurements when MRI signals are extremely weak.

Chen’s research program focuses on developing bioengineering and biosensing approaches for food safety, environmental monitoring, and clinical diagnostics, with a particular interest in CRISPR-Cas protein engineering. The new USDA-funded project builds on that work by applying molecular detection tools to a major food-safety challenge.

A new collaborative research project led by UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao has received a $100,000 award from the City of Hope-UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative (CUBRI-UCR) to advance a promising approach for discovering next-generation therapies for cancer and other diseases.