Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Assistant Professors Receive Young Investigator Awards
Courtesy of UCLA Samueli Samanvaya Srivastava (left) and Jun Chen (right) have each received a Young Investigator Award. Jun 6, 2022 UCLA Samueli Two UCLA Samueli School of Engineering assistant professors — Samanvaya Srivastava in the Chemical and Biomolecular...
UCLA research team receives $1 million grant to study long COVID
Kelsie Sandoval | May 23, 2022 A team of researchers at UCLA Health has received a $1 million research grant from the American Heart Association to study the cardiovascular effects of long COVID. Over the next three years, Dr. Jeffrey Hsu, assistant clinical professor...
Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics
Stuart Wolpert | May 19, 2022 A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each year, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths from infection-related complications and roughly $30...
UCLA and Amazon Announce Inaugural Recipients of Research Gifts and Amazon Fellowships
May 5, 2022 UCLA Samueli The UCLA Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration with Amazon, announced today its first cohort of 12 Amazon fellowships and six gift-funded research projects. Funded by Amazon and housed at the UCLA Samueli School...
UCLA-developed technology enables single-cell sorting by function
Joseph de Rutte/UCLA Using microscopic, bowl-shaped containers called nanovials (the larger, reddish-brown objects) enabled researchers to select cells based on what type they are and which compounds they secrete (shown here in blue). Advance has implications...
Engineering 96: Undergraduate Instructors Teach Classes on Design, Build and Test
Samantha Hilton and Jonathan Huang are student instructors for the Engineering 96 class on go-karts. (UCLA Samueli) Apr 5, 2022 UCLA Samueli When third-year mechanical engineering student Jonathan Huang embarked on his career at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering,...
Ultrasound Offers New Avenue to Treat Diabetes
Sensory neuron cultured in 3D hydrogel cell model developed by UCLA team (Hiromi Miwa/UCLA) Apr 6, 2022 UCLA Samueli Two UCLA bioengineers are part of a multi-institutional team that has demonstrated a new technique that uses ultrasound to prevent and even potentially...
Democratizing microscopy and diagnostics and developing digital holography: an interview with Aydogan Ozcan
Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles (CA, USA) where he leads the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory. He is also a Professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Smart Textiles for Wearable Healthcare and Sustainability Explained
A textile body area network on clothing, enabling diagnostic, therapeutic, energy harvesting, and data processing capabilities. Jun Chen Lab/UCLA. Mar 30, 2022 Following the invitation from editors of different journals, UCLA assistant professor of bioengineering, Jun...