UCLA Professor Receives Biomedical Engineering Society Rising Star Award
Dec 22, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Neil Lin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering as well as bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a 2024 Rising Star Junior Faculty Award from the Biomedical Engineering...
Promising Engineered Compound Fights Space Bone Loss
University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences A new study published in a Nature Partner Journal, npj Microgravity, finds an engineered compound given to mice aboard the International Space Station (ISS) largely prevented the bone loss associated with time...
2 UCLA Engineers Named to 2023 National Academy of Inventors
Dec 12, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Eric P. Y. Chiou — a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering — and Paul Weiss — a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and materials science and engineering — at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have...
Could the ‘central dogma’ of biology be misleading bioengineers?
Wayne Lewis | UCLA Newsroom December 11, 2023 Key takeaways Mesenchymal stem cells, found in bone marrow, secrete therapeutic proteins that could potentially help regenerate damaged tissue. A UCLA study examining these cells challenges the conventional understanding...
5 UCLA Engineers Among World’s Most Influential Researchers
Nov 15, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Clarivate released today its list of 2023 Highly Cited Researchers, including eight faculty members from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Since 2002, Clarivate has released an annual list of researchers who have demonstrated...
UCLA Engineering Professors Receive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards
Nov 8, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering assistant professors — Sergio Carbajo and Jun Chen — have received the Young Investigator Program Awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in support of their respective research....
From Sea Monkeys to Shelf-Stable Insulin
It’s not every day that a gag gift at a holiday party sparks a new line of research, but that turned out to be the case for Heather Maynard, a polymer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As she watched little shrimp-like sea monkeys emerge...
UCLA Engineers Find AI-Based Solution to Communicate Information around Opaque Walls
Nov 7, 2023 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Traditional wireless communications have relied on long-wave electromagnetic microwave and radio frequencies, but the growing need for faster data transfer rates has presented performance challenges. Shorter wavelengths, such as the...
Professor Jaimie Stewart receives Sloan Matter-to-Life Seed Grant
Jaimie Marie Stewart, an assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a Sloan Matter-to-Life Seed Grant in the research area of Building Life from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her project proposes to build synthetic...