News
 
    
        July 16, 2025
    
    
      Fostering Future Faculty
    
    
      Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.
    
    
 
    
        May 16, 2025
    
    
      Brain Manage
    
    
      Department of Bioengineering assistant professor Shahab Vahdat uses magnetic resonance imaging and neurostimulation to develop cutting-edge treatments for people who have suffered ischemic strokes.
    
    
 
    
        April 08, 2025
    
    
      Secrets of their Success
    
    
      Five bioengineering majors describe the success factors that empowered them to turn their Senior Design project into an award-winning, innovation that could revolutionize hearing-loss diagnostics.
    
    
 
    
        March 24, 2025
    
    
      The People Behind the Project
    
    
      A team of bioengineering undergraduates share how the successes they achieved in redesigning an innovative hearing-loss diagnostic tool were made possible through guidance and mentorship from faculty members and real-world feedback and resources from industry.
    
    
Upcoming and Previous Events
 
    
        Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Alba Alfonso Garcia
    
    
        June 04, 2025 @ 11:00 am
    
        
        Zoom - https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95701531703
    
        
        Fluorescence lifetime imaging for disease detection and surgical guidance - Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) is an optical imaging technique used for real-time tissue assessments in clinical settings. It detects changes in tissue structure and biochemistry without labels, aiding disease monitoring. We are bringing FLIm to the…
    
    
 
    
        Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Tianhong Dai
    
    
        May 21, 2025 @ 11:00 am
    
        
        https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95701531703
    
        
        Antimicrobial blue light inactivation of microbial pathogens: State of the artAlthough microbiologists have been ringing the alarm bell for years, the threat of antibiotic resistance has reached new prominence in the popular press that the issue should be added to the list of global emergencies. It is now indisputable that…
    
    
 
    
        Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Andre Obenaus
    
    
        May 14, 2025 @ 11:00 am
    
        
        WCH 205/206
    
        
        Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease: Vascular Perturbations - Emerging evidence suggests that traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) may share similar pathophysiology including long-term alterations in neurodegeneration and cognition. Vascular perturbations are evident in both neurological…
    
    
 
    
        Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Leah Guthrie
    
    
        May 07, 2025 @ 11:00 am
    
        
        Zoom - https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95701531703
    
        
        Decoding microbiome-dependent metabolite signaling and immune modulation in the kidney - The kidney plays a central role in clearing chemically diverse small molecules from the body, making it a key site of exposure to both endogenous and microbiome-derived metabolites. These exposures can shape disease progression, particularly…
    
    
Did You Know?
                
            3.8:1    
            
            
                
            GRADUATE STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO     
            
        
                
            20    
            
            
                
            Core Faculty    
            
        
                
            50    
            
            
                
            BIG Faculty    
            
        
                
            11    
            
            
                
            FELLOWS OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS    
            
        
                
            10    
            
            
                
            Affiliated Centers    
            
        