BEAST BioE’s Alonso Torres (center) has been working diligently on the bioreactor component of the implantable bioartificial kidney with @KidneyProject Director @shuvoroy (right). They just won $1M from #KidneyX to continue their work! See article here: pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2023/06/s…
Unofficial account from Bioengineering graduate students at UC Berkeley & UCSF. Views are our own. #UCBUCSFBioE
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Joined April 2017
- It was great seeing everyone at our Annual Retreat this year in Asilomar! Shoutout to retreat committee, Victoria and Rocio for making it such a success
- @UCSF_BTS professor and @KidneyProject Director @shuvoroy and Beast BioEs, @nickhiggins21 and Alonso Torres, gave Dutch Queen Máxima a demonstration of the implantable bioartificial kidney when she visited @UCSF last week. Photo Credit: Susan Merrell
- #BEASTofTheWeek : Annabel is a 2nd year PhD student in Dr. Ian Holmes's lab at UC Berkeley. She works on building statistical and machine learning models to better characterize novel Adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids!

