UC San Diego Bioengineering@ucsdbe

UC San Diego Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering improving health and quality of life by applying engineering principles to scientific discovery.

 La Jolla, California, USA
be.ucsd.edu
Joined October 2009
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📢🔬 UC San Diego Chien‑Lay Dept. of Bioengineering is hiring a temporary, non‑tenure‑track lecturer (Unit 18) for Fall 2026 to teach Scientific Ethics (BENG 292) Apply & Details👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF045… #UCSD #Bioengineering #AcademicJobs #ScientificEthics #HiringNow
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✨ New REDCAT imaging from Prof. Lingyan Shi and collaborators from Columbia, Penn & Yale. New Imaging Platform Maps Cell Type and Metabolic Activity Simultaneously today.ucsd.edu/area-story/ne…

New Imaging Platform Maps Cell Type and Metabolic Activity Simultaneously

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Advanced Semiconductor Tech Enables UC San Diego Researchers to Probe Biological Systems in New Ways 🔬Bioengineering professor, Kiana Aran, serves as the principal investigator for the project. today.ucsd.edu/area-story/ad…
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Developed by UC San Diego bioengineers, the Primer PICKR platform ranks literature-validated primers for RT–qPCR A Practical Tool for Selecting Reliable PCR Primers today.ucsd.edu/area-story/a-…
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🌽🦠Researchers in the UC San Diego Chien-Lay Department of Bioengineering leveraging evolution to develop novel microbe strains capable of efficiently consuming low-cost feedstocks, such as agricultural waste and mixed plastics. today.ucsd.edu/story/corn-st…

Corn Stalks. It’s What’s for Dinner … If You’re a Microbe.

Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. This work has exciting implications for the future of...

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🧬Bioengineers in the lab of Prashant Mali have developed an open-access genetic map providing a reference for what almost every stem cell gene does.🚀 today.ucsd.edu/story/open-ac…

Open-Access Genetic Map Provides Reference for What Almost Every Stem Cell Gene Does

Bioengineers have developed a genome-scale reference map that details how individual genes control the functions and identities of human stem cells. This open-access resource could help researchers...

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🪲💡Kiana Aran's lab at UC San Diego Shu Chien - Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering is bridging the gap between nature and hardware. Insect-inspired electronic nose: turning semiconductor chips into olfactory sensors today.ucsd.edu/story/insect-… #UCSD #Innovation #BioTech

Insect-inspired electronic nose: turning semiconductor chips into olfactory sensors

Bioengineers at UC San Diego integrated the olfactory receptor of an insect called a jumping bristletail into semiconductor chips made of graphene, creating an electronic nose capable of sniffing out...

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Team Led by UC San Diego Researchers Selected for Prestigious Global Cancer Prize today.ucsd.edu/story/team-le…

Team Led by UC San Diego Researchers Selected for Prestigious Global Cancer Prize

With up to $25 million from Cancer Grand Challenges, an international team led by UC San Diego professor Ludmil Alexandrov will unlock the secrets of DNA's

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🦠By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs today.ucsd.edu/story/by-buil… 🧬💡 #ComputationalBiology #SyntheticBiology #UCSDResearch

By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs

Bioengineers are creating comprehensive digital twins of bacterial cells to understand more about how to engineer strains that can sustainably produce valuable chemicals, as well as understand the...

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🌟Congrats to Prof. Palsson and campus colleagues Prof. Liu and Prof. Saltiel ! Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 🔬today.ucsd.edu/story/three-u…

Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

Three professors at the University of California San Diego have been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Ping Liu, Bernhard Palsson and Alan Saltiel. They...

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21 Oct 2025
👇👇👇👇Just Released👇👇👇👇 The 2025 Impact Report for @UCSDJacobs's Chien-Lay Department of #Bioengineering is out!!!! Amazing updates from @ucsdbe students, faculty, and staff. #TritonPride heyzine.com/flip-book/93cd25…

UC San Diego Chien - Lay Department of Bioengineering | PDF to Flipbook

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Kolade Adebowale, Ph.D.@KoladeAdebowal1
11 Nov 2025
We had our inaugural "4th floor Friendsgiving". Many thanks to Drs. Vira Kravets and Erika Cyphert for helping organize. Love the Snoopy with a scarf background pic. Looking forward to growing our community of Bioengineers on the 4th floor. 😎 @ucsdbe
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Kolade Adebowale, Ph.D.@KoladeAdebowal1
15 Oct 2025
Had a fantastic time at the 2025 BMES annual conference, meeting, catching up, and celebrating mentors, friends, and students. #BMES2025.
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🔬Join us on Oct 8, 2025, for this year’s Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Alliance (BME-IDEA) Meeting with @Venturewell Register today: bit.ly/40AvHVD
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📢🔬Hiring! The Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering is seeking Research Scientists (Assistant, Associate, or Full level) in Bioengineering. Apply now apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF042… #Bioengineering #ResearchScientist #UCSD
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14 Jun 2025
***Huge congratulations*** to 111 M.S. and M.Eng. graduates from the Chien-Lay Department of #Bioengineering (@ucsdbe) and the @UCSDJacobs. #Tritons2025 #Graduation 🎓 Up next: 131 B.S. graduates on Saturday/Sunday and 28 Ph.D. graduates on Sunday!
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🔬Research from the Aguado Lab ! Recognizing Sex Differences in Disease Can Improve Treatments for All today.ucsd.edu/story/recogni…

Recognizing Sex Differences in Disease Can Improve Treatments for All

A new study shows that drug treatment outcomes are significantly different for a type of heart valve disease based on how the disease progresses in males versus females. An AI-derived digital...

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🔬🎉Congrats to Dr. John Watson! Named Recipient of the Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Development of Artificial Organ Technologies einpresswire.com/article/812… via @ein_news

Dr. John Watson Named Recipient of the Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award

The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) presented the 2025 Vishnu Ingle Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Development of

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🔬Congrats to UC San Diego Bioengineering alumna Dr. April Aralar, '22 @FraleyLab on her recent publication! Proud of the impact our BioEng Tritons are making #UCSDBioengineering #TritonPride #WomenInStem
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22 May 2025
#LegacyContent: Universal Digital High-Resolution Melt Analysis for the Diagnosis of #Bacteremia. Authors from @UCSanDiego @ucsdbe @NMC_SD @UofUMedicine and @radychildrens. Free in the #OpenArchive: jmdjournal.org/article/S1525…
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Lingyan Shi@StimulatedRaman
17 May 2025
Our new paper on A Clearer Look at Diabetic Kidney Disease today.ucsd.edu/story/a-clear…

A Clearer Look at Diabetic Kidney Disease via New Optical Imaging Technology

Researchers have developed a powerful new way to look inside kidney tissues, without needing to stain or damage the tissue samples. The new technique reveals early signs of disease often missed by...

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