Using total-body PET imaging to get a better understanding of long COVID disease is the goal of a new project at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with UC San Francisco. The project is funded by a grant of $3.2 million over four years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Biomedical engineering undergraduate Kathleen Scott reflects on summer internships with Willow Innovations Inc., a breast pump company based in Mountain View, California. Through the internships, Scott has explored real-world applications of engineering concepts and gained confidence in herself as an engineer.
Comstock’s Magazine highlights The Make Box, an education startup founded by UC Davis electrical and computer engineering alum Kavya Khare, as this month’s promising startup from California’s Capital Region.
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.
A partnership between Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chen-Nee Chuah and UC Davis Health is turning the Yolo Causeway into an arterial thoroughfare for student learning and innovation in artificial intelligence at the University of California, Davis.
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.
Biomedical engineering senior Tiffany Chan received a Hanson Family Award for research on free student-faculty lunches that foster community in STEM. Her work blends empathy with evidence to shape a more inclusive academic culture — one lunch (and data set) at a time.
Rachel Mizenko, who earned her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from UC Davis in 2024, has been selected by the College of Engineering to receive the Zuhair A. Munir Award for best doctoral dissertation for her research with extracellular vesicles.
