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Spring 2024

Research

Building Bone from Scratch: An Interview with Ronke Olabisi

Associate professor of biomedical engineering at UCI discusses her journey into tissue engineering, how she uses biosynthetic materials to construct a diversity of tissue types and her lifelong dream to be an astronaut.


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UC Irvine Researchers Awarded Grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Three researchers are on teams that have won Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants to pursue the development of advanced medical and biological imaging technologies.


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Achievements

National Academy of Engineering Elects Bruce Tromberg

Recognized for “U.S. diagnostics innovation initiatives, resulting in advanced SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity and performance,” Tromberg helped launch the RADx® initiative that created a fast review process for widely accessible COVID-19 testing.


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Kyriacos Athanasiou Receives Prestigious Award from his Homeland, the Republic of Cyprus

Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at UCI Samueli School of Engineering received the Medal of Excellence from the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in a ceremony on December 12.


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Highlights

Former UCI Postdoc Establishes Engineering Program at Concordia University

Gabriela Espinosa, a former postdoctoral researcher with the Samueli School, is the founding chair of the engineering program at Concordia University Irvine, a private nonprofit Lutheran university in Irvine.


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Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Supports New Program Focused on Equitable Innovations

The UCI Samueli School of Engineering was awarded $100,000 to develop a pilot program focused on educating biomedical engineering students about how systemic racism contributes to health inequities. 


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Accolades

Enrico Gratton Recognized with Honorary Doctorate in Uruguay

A UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering and a pioneering researcher in ​​fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy received the high distinction at an award ceremony on Nov. 20, 2023.


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Kheradvar Named a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography

The professor of biomedical engineering focuses on designing and developing cardiac imaging and cardiovascular devices including a novel technique called a volumetric echocardiographic particle image velocimetry, known as V-Echo-PIV. 


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Students

UC Irvine’s ANTrepreneur Center Announces Winners of AI Innovation Challenge

Weaving human ingenuity with artificial intelligence, nine student teams at UCI claimed the top prizes in the ANTrepreneur Center’s AI Innovation Challenge, devising AI-based solutions in the categories of health impact, storytelling and entertainment, and student experiences.


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BME Doctoral Student Selected as Scholar for Industry Career-mentoring Initiative 

Biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Kalan Leaks was named a 2023 Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP) Scholar in biotechnology by the nonprofit International Center for Professional Development. 


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