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Bissell Recipient of 2015 Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award
Distinguished Scientist Mina Bissell of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division accepted the 2015 Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award last month at the 58th Annual Symposium on Fundamental Cancer Research. The award is conferred annually on a physician or scientist who has made distinguished contributions to cancer research. Established in 1950 in honor of the first acting director of MD Anderson and first president of the Texas Medical Center, it is the oldest award conferred by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Three from Biosciences Win Director’s Exceptional Achievement Awards
The Berkeley Lab Director’s Office has announced the recipients of the 2015 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement. Awardees included three women-researchers from the Biological Systems & Engineering Division: Eleanor Blakely, Sarah Richardson, and Corinne Scown.
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Bowen and Lee Recipients of 2015 R&D 100 Awards
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won seven 2015 R&D 100 awards. This year’s winners include two technologies developed by researchers in the Biosciences Area. Ben Bowen of the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division and Oliver Rübel of the Computational Research Division led the development of OpenMSI, a new way to analyze and visualize mass spectrometry data. Seung-Wuk Lee of the Biological Systems and Engineering Division led the development of the Sensor Integrated with Recombinant and Engineered Nanophage (SIREN) platform. SIREN uses bio-nanofilms with tunable functionality to create portable devices for detecting…
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Four from Biosciences Honored as “Women @ the Lab” 2015
Berkeley Lab is pleased to honor fourteen “Women @ The Lab” this year. Women @ the Lab showcases some of Berkeley Lab’s talented and dedicated employees in STEM and Operations, and four of the fourteen are in the Biosciences Area. Helen Cademartori, Biosciences Area Operations Deputy; Sarah Richardson, Computational Biologist Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, […]
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Legacy of ARRA Funding for Lab Research and Facilities is Vast
Berkeley Lab received $334 million and used the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for such things as the demolition of the Bevatron, creating the BELLA advanced laser plasma accelerator, and establishing the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit. The jobs created and retained by the Lab and its contractors totaled 2,017. Read more in […]
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