UCI Engineering Faculty Design, Deliver 5,000 Face Shields to Local Medical Center

Engineered Systems, April 9, 2020

Provost Enrique Lavernia is elected a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering

UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Enrique Lavernia has been elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Lavernia was recognized for his distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering and for his promotion of Chinese-American exchanges and cooperation in the field. He will be inducted in June 2020, during the academy’s annual […]

UCI engineering team creates biocatalyst for microbial production of useful commodities

Scientists have demonstrated that – in labs – microbes can be used as tiny biological factories to produce fuels, pharmaceutical drugs and other commodities from renewable resources. But achieving output on a commercially viable scale has proven elusive. A key barrier has been so-called cofactors – biocatalysts that spur enzymatic activity in cells – as […]

UCI engineering researchers get $1.9 million grant from NIH for ‘microtsunami’ microscope

The National Institutes of Health has awarded UCI engineering researchers a four-year, $1.9 million grant for the development of a noninvasive biophotonics technology platform. The proposed new optical tool will enable scientists to investigate the role of mechanical forces in normal-tissue disease development, and it has applications for high-throughput drug screening. The collaborative, interdisciplinary project […]

UCI electrical engineering team develops ‘beyond 5G’ wireless transceiver

Chip’s novel architecture enables ultra-fast data processing, less energy consumption

UCI engineers aim to pioneer tissue-engineering approach to TMJ disorders

Solutions have been hampered by past failures, proximity of jaw joint to brain

Biomedical engineering graduate student wins American Heart Association fellowship

Courtney Carlson, a second-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has won a two-year fellowship from the American Heart Association. She will receive $53,000 from the AHA in support of her research project, which involves creating cells that can record their own developmental history in their DNA and then optimizing those cells to study congenital heart disease. […]

Biomedical engineering professor is named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

UCI biomedical engineer Abraham Lee has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. It’s the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in originating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have had a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare […]

UCI scientists simplify and accelerate directed evolution bioengineering method

Technological innovation can be used to rapidly make new antibodies and pharmaceutical enzymes

Bruce Tromberg to lead the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

UCI professor has directed the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic since 2003