Congratulations to Jung-Rok Lee for successfully defending his dissertation on INVESTIGATION ON DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS AND PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS BY USING GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE BIOSENSORS! His PhD degree is awarded in Mechanical Engineering. Jung-Rok continues his research in Wang Group as a postdoctoral scholar.
Jung-Rok was a team member in our successful entry in 2014 Nokia Sensing XChallenge.
Hearty Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Bechstein who got married, defended his dissertation on MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN BIOASSAYS USING GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSORS, and joined Apple, Inc. all in one summer! His PhD degree is awarded in Mechanical Engineering.
Daniel held a Bio-X Graduate Fellowship while conducting research in Wang Group, and was a team member in our successful entry in 2014 Nokia Sensing XChallenge.
Congratulations to Kyunglok Kim for successfully defending his dissertation on Prototyping portable high speed large-scale magneto-nanosensor array and system! His PhD degree is awarded in Electrical Engineering. We wish Kyunglok all the best in his new postition as Senior Hardware Engineer at Oracle.
Congratulations to Amal El-Ghazaly for receiving a Stanford Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship! This is a two-year fellowship awarded to advanced doctoral students who want to investigate and prepare for academic careers and whose presence will help diversify the professoriate.
Elaine Ng has been chosen as one of the exclusive list of ten finalists in the 2015 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare Competition. With this honor comes a monetary prize to further Elaine's research and her entry now moves on to compete for one of three top prizes. Congratulations, Elaine!
Team Eigen Lifescience composed of Dr. Shan Wang, Dr. PJ Utz, Daniel Bechstein, Jung-Rok Lee, Joohong Choi, and Adi Gani wins Distinguished Award Prize in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. Read all about it here!
This year’s recipients of the 2014 SIMR Jessica Saal Award were Pedro Gallardo and Catherine Li. Pedro worked in the lab of Dr. David Miklos and Catherine worked in the lab of Dr. Shan Wang.
We’re thankful for the generosity of Harry and Carol Saal for their support of this annual award.
Forbes Magazine names alumnus Rich Gaster to the list of “30 Under 30” in Science and Healthcare! Read about it here!