Two M.D./Ph.D. students with a biomedical engineering focus have been awarded grants from the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. The grants support leading-edge research aimed at improving patient care and advancing health equity.
When biomedical engineering students walked into a room full of clinicians at UC Davis Health, they carried two medical device prototypes. One was an alum’s late-night sketch, while the other was theirs. What unfolded in that room over several hours became the basis for First Bite, a medical device designed to safely secure breathing tubes for infants.
As part of their senior design project, five biomedical engineering students developed First Bite, a medical device that includes headgear and an external guard with a built-in adjustable cable to hold the endotracheal tube in place.
Clinicians and engineers at the University of California, Davis, are collaborating on AI-driven tools to analyze vast digital archives of brain tissue scans — work that cannot be done at scale by humans alone — to better understand dementia and improve diagnosis and treatment.
Chemical engineering graduate student success gains momentum with an investment by UC Davis alum Howard Stone and his wife, Valerie, to renovate graduate student office space and establish an endowment supporting collaboration and research.
For innovative research on chips that can sustain high speeds without sacrificing power or signal amplification, a feat necessary for realizing the wireless networks of tomorrow, Phat Nguyen has received the Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Engineering at UC Davis.
Alumni, faculty, staff, graduate students and university-affiliated guests are invited to participate in our Spring 2026 Final Design Showcase for ENG 003 Introduction to Engineering Design on Monday, June 8, 2026 between 6-8 p.m. in Kemper Hall.
ImmobiCUFF, a medtech startup founded by five biomedical engineering alumni from the University of California, Davis, believes it has a solution designed to replace shoulder slings.
Join fellow UC Davis alumni, engineers, founders, and investors for Aggies in Innovation, an evening featuring student startup pitches and conversations with the next generation of Aggie founders emerging from the UC Davis Student Startup Center.
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Kaveh Madani, Ph.D. ’09 has been awarded the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, known as the “Nobel Prize of Water.” Madani is recognized for his global leadership in water security, climate adaptation and the water-energy-food nexus.
