Biophysicist Amy Rowat honored by the National Science Foundation
UCLA Newsroom Stuart Wolpert | March 23, 2022 Biophysicist Amy Rowat, an associate professor and vice chair of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College, has received a National Science Foundation BRITE Fellow award that will provide $995,000 of research...
UCLA Professor Wins Prestigious Optical Engineering Prize
Mar 1, 2022 UCLA Samueli Aydogan Ozcan, who holds the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2022 Joseph Fraunhofer Award and Robert M. Burley Prize for optical engineering.The annual award by leading...
Song Li receives $1.3 million to develop stem cell-derived therapy for type 1 diabetes
UCLA Newsroom | Tiare Dunlap February 17, 2022 Song Li, chancellor’s professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA has received a $1.3...
Dual data and motif clustering improves the modeling and interpretation of phosphoproteomic data
Cancer cells respond to their environment through the activity of signaling proteins called kinases. These proteins are especially important because several cancer therapies target hyperactive kinases that drive tumor growth and spread. Creixell and Meyer built a...
Start-ups Take Two of Three New Product Awards at SLAS2022 in Boston
February 10, 2022 (Boston, MA)- The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening announced the winners of its annual New Product Awards Monday, February 7 at the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition in Boston, MA. This year’s New Product Award winners are...
Photonics and Optics Pioneer Bahram Jalali Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Feb 9, 2022 UCLA Samueli Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional honors that can be granted to an American...
New Way to Make Microparticles Could Accelerate Drug Development, Production of New Cell Strains
UCLA Newsroom | Nicole Wilkins | January 26, 2022 FINDINGS UCLA scientists have devised a method for producing intricately shaped hydrogel microparticles at a rate of more than 40 million per hour — at least 10 times faster than the current standard approach....
UCLA food studies institute to tackle global food challenges
The institute will collaborate with a community of chefs and scholars in pursuit of a healthier population and planet, UCLA Newsroom Elizabeth Kivowitz | January 24, 2022 Increasingly, scholars are studying food — its production, preparation, sharing, consumption and...
UCLA Researchers Develop Novel Microscopic PicoShell Particles
Advance can expedite research of microalgae efficient in converting light into biofuels to help combat climate change Jan 20, 2022 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Production of high-energy fats by microalgae may provide a sustainable, renewable energy source that can help...