Ekaterina Shanina, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has won the Physics in Medicine & Biology Early Career Researcher Award for her research paper describing a novel brain phantom for positron emission tomography (PET).
The Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies, or SAOT, has honored Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Alba Alfonso García for her outstanding research record in optics, photonics and optical technologies.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yi Xue has received NSF's prestigious award honoring early-career faculty members. Funding from the CAREER Award will support her research on a multimodal microscopy system that can shed light on the mechanisms behind neurological diseases.
Biomedical engineering senior Claire Hsu has received a 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her innovative work on Alzheimer’s disease in Assistant Professor Audrey Fan’s lab at UC Davis.
Having experience trekking literal and metaphorical hills, biomedical engineering graduate student Abigail Humphries explains how being in nature via hiking and endurance competitions has nurtured her research.
Each year, the departments recognize 13 graduating seniors for showing exceptional leadership, academic achievement and service both in and out of the classroom.
