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congratulations to The Kortemme Lab

please join us in supporting Expanding Your Horizons. A special opportunity for young schoolgirls to learn about STEM

We're so proud of Prof. Tanja Kortemme for this high-impact paper now appearing in #Nature UCSF UCSF School of Pharmacy UCSF School of Medicine #kortemmelab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03982-6

TODAY! IN ONE HOUR!! We're looking forward to Kwabena Boahen's HIVE Seminar presentation "The Future of AI: A 3-D Silicon Brain" Register here to get the link! https://t.co/14qKGbQGgW?amp=1 UCSF UCSF School of Medicine UCSF School of Pharmacy

DEADLINE for HIVE Fellowship in **2 weeks**!! Due March 15! Great opportunity to explore your creativity in addressing the grand challenges of health care in new, innovative, and collaborative ways. Details: https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu//postdoctoral-fellowship-applica UCSF UCSF School of Pharmacy UCB/UCSF Master of Translational Medicine Alumni Group UCSF School of Medicine UCSF School of Dentistry UCSF School of Nursing UC Berkeley Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUC Berkeley; Materials Science & Engineering Department Gladstone Institute Please help spread the word! Thank you

Proud of our Champion for Equality, Inclusion, Justice, Diversity Esteban Burchard MD. Congratulations Esteban & co-authors Check out this great article UCSF UCSF Diversity and Outreach UCSF School of Pharmacy UCSF School of Medicine https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsb025007

Wishing our friends a happy, safe, healthy, and prosperous New Year! Filled with new discoveries!! Warm regards from Tejal & All in BTS UCSF UCSF School of Pharmacy UCSF School of Medicine

Dr. Tejal Desai and Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) are inviting you to a seminar talk by Dr. Andres Garcia, Chair in Bioengineering and Bioscience, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dec. 8, 2020 - 12 1 pm Pacific Time. Dr. García received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His research centers on integrating engineering and biological principles to control cell function to restore and/or enhance activity in injured or diseased organs. Specific research areas include adhesive force regulation and mechanotransduction, mechanobiology technologies for induced pluripotent stem cells, cell-instructive adhesive materials for regenerative medicine, and To register for this talk, please go to https://hive-seminar-garcia.eventbrite.com

UC Berkeley/UCSF BioE Grad Program alumni change the world for the better again! to combat the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, we now have our first point-of-care COVID-19 rapid diagnostic, thanks to alumni of our graduate program & a UC Berkeley spin-out. the US FDA has issued its first ‘emergency use authorization (EUA)’ for an at-home active COVID-19 infection diagnostic, and lucira health founded by BioE PhD alumni Deb Mitra, PhD & John Waldeisen, PhD created & developed this urgently needed test (hopefully the first of many). FDA authorizes the first at-home coronavirus test (NY Times, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url you can access for free through our libraries) Lucira Health (formerly DiAssess) and EUA How it works: detail for providers & overview in product insert

#UCSFPride #ucsfstandsupforscience Congratulations UCSF Advisory Board Members! This morning, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced the establishment of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. 3 UCSF Professors were honored to be named: Advisory Board Co-Chair David Kessler, MD, JD, professor of pediatrics and of epidemiology and biostatistics, former dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor, and former commissioner... of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Kessler led the FDA under the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The 2 other members of the UCSF faculty who have also been named to the 13-person Advisory Board: Eric Goosby, MD and Robert M. Rodriguez, MD. We wish Drs. Kessler, Goosby, and Rodriguez the best as they assume these critical leadership roles. They represent the extraordinary and relentless dedication the UCSF community has shown in meeting the challenge of the coronavirus across our patient care, research, and education efforts. Our public health mission has never been clearer nor pursued with greater determination. UCSF looks forward to working with President-elect Biden’s administration. We remain committed as ever to our partnership with public health officials at the national, state, and local levels.

DEADLINE: Nov 6!! Women in Tech!

Read All About It! Bioartificial kidney aims to mimic natural kidney function with $1 million grant from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation, a private family foundation based in San Francisco, recently granted The Kidney Project $1 million to advance its bioartificial kidney. The grant will support the development of the device’s bioreactor, which will perform essential kidney functions that dialysis treatments don’t replace. More here: https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu//bioartificial-kidney-aims-mimic UCSF UCSF School of Medicine UCSF School of Pharmacy The Kidney Project

We're so proud of Seth Shipman, PhD, who received the National Institute of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award for his groundbreaking work on mitochondrial DNA, which is mutated in a number of currently incurable diseases. Congratulations, Seth! UCSF School of Pharmacy, UCSF, UCSF School of Medicine

Don't forget, BTS Postdocs! Special treats tomorrow/Friday, 9-25-20 outside BH-211 from 1-3 pm! Come & get yours!!

IT'S NATIONAL POSTDOC APPRECIATION WEEK! We're celebrating our Postdocs all week long, but especially on Friday. Special give-away treats from 1-3 pm, outside BH-211 #NPAW2020 @nationalpostdoc.org

Join us this Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 3:00PM EDT for #TissueTalks with Prof. Tejal Desai from UCSF Bioengineering, where she’ll talk about her lab’s work in mic...ro & nano #biomaterials for modulating the tissue microenvironment!! Register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us//WN_j8PcFktOQTGu1ryr4up

so proud of Prof. Tejal Desai & colleagues for taking a stand for justice

Our heroes are women as well as men.

The new US News Graduate Rankings were released this morning, and our UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering is ranked #4 (tied with Duke, Stanford, and UCSD). This is one spot higher than last year and matches our all-time highest ranking. While rankings may fluctuate from year to year, what doesn’t change is the tremendous dedication and excellence of our students, staff, and faculty. Our thanks and congratulations to program Chair and Co-Chair Todd McDev...itt and Ian Holmes along with the rest of the Executive Committee for their strong leadership. We'd also like to thank Tejal Desai, chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (and now joint Berkeley BioE faculty), who has been a wonderful partner in supporting this program. And of course we wouldn’t be where we are without the care and hard work of the BioE and BTS staff, going all the way from admissions to graduation. Finally, thank you and congratulations to our current and former graduate students, who make it all possible and represent us so well! UCSF UCSF School of Medicine UCSF School of Pharmacy

Today is World Kidney Day! Here is what our UCSF kidney experts are saying https://www.ucsf.edu//experts-shine-light-kidney-disease-s. We are excited to see our own Dr. Shuvo Roy and The Kidney Project be featured.

Did you know? World Kidney Day is March 12, 2020. Dr. Shuvo Roy (UCSF) and Dr. William Fissell (VUMC) wrote an update regarding their ongoing conversations with the FDA about the @ArtificialKidney first planned in-human study. We are excited about their progress towards the world’s first implantable bioartificial kidney! Read more about it here: https://www.facebook.com/ArtificialKidney/ #KidneyDisease #TKP #VUMC #UCSF

Congratulations to the inaugural HIVE cohort.

Congratulations, Kathy! #UCSFProud