Congratulations to Timothy Downing, Abraham Lee, Vojislav Stamenkovic, and Yoonjin Won for been awarded spring 2024 Proof of Product grants from UCI Beall Applied Innovation to advance their innovative research discoveries! 👍🤘tinyurl.com/acpbcdmp

Where in the brain is abstract map generated? It is the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), working together!! Here is our new finding published in nature Prefrontal and lateral entorhinal neurons co-dependently learn item–outcome rules

’Tis the season … for me to swing by the UCI Engineering departmental retreats in preparation for the new academic year. First up, UC Irvine BME Biomedical Engineering; a collegial and excellent group of faculty who are key to our Engineering+Health initiatives.

Congratulations to our outstanding BME faculty member, Zhongping Chen, who was awarded the Michael S Feld Biophotonics award from Optica! ⁦Beckman Laser Inst.⁩ ⁦UC Irvine BME⁩

Congratulations to Nnaoma Agwu for receiving the highly prestigious Allen Y. Callow Young Investigator Award from the ISACB ISACB #IRISValve UC Irvine BME UCI Engineering

One of our BME alumni, Dr. Jonathan Siegrist, has just become the new Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer at QuidelOrtho. Check out the story here: businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

Congratulations to our outstanding colleague Prof. Kyriacos Athanasiou for winning the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Society’s highest honor! He was awarded at BMES 2024 in Baltimore, MD! UC Irvine BME #BMES2024

M.Eng is accepting applications now! Deadline is 12/15/24 for scholarship consideration, but final deadline is 5/15/25. All students, even alumni, may benefit from this opportunity! Apply through the website here: meng.eng.uci.edu

Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Lee, as his latest paper has been published in the prestigious PNAS journal. This work was funded by NSF and the industrial members of the Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics See more: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Congratulations to team Venaptic, who won $20,000 for their design for a DVT detection and monitoring system at the Cardiovascular Device Pitch Competition! See more: engineering.uci.edu/news/2024/10/s…

The Biomedical Engineering Society 2024 Annual Meeting was held in Baltimore, MD, October 23 – 26, 2024. UCI had a booth at the exhibit (pic attached) and hosted the University of California Systemwide reception at BMES2024, attended by representatives from all 10 UC campuses.

Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Lee, as his recent published work was featured on the UCI School of Engineering website along with an interview featuring Dr. Lee and lead graduate student, Braulio Cardenas-Benitez! Check it out here: engineering.uci.edu/news/2024/11/n…

Congratulations to our BME faculty member, Dr. Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, the winner of the prestigious Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award at the recent BMES 2024 annual meeting. Read more here: bmes.org/news/pritzker-…