November 2009

Society for Biological Engineering Honors James Liao
AIChE s Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) has awarded its fifth annual James E. Bailey Award to Dr. James C. Liao for advances in metabolic research.  Liao is the Chancellor s Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has made major contributions to biochemical engineering with his theoretical and his experimental work, and has an international reputation that extends well beyond the chemical engineering community.

July 2009

Society for Biological Engineering Names New Executive Director
SBE has named Miriam Cortes-Caminero as its new executive director, effective July 7.

February 2009

Search Committee Review Criteria for Assistant Director for Biological Sciences (AD/BIO), NSF
National Science Foundation is initiating a national research for an Assistant Director for Biological Sciences (BIO). Dr. James Collins has served in this position with great distinction since October 2005.

November 2008

James Swartz is the 2008 Bailey Award Winner
SBE’s 2008 James E. Bailey Award is presented to James Swartz for his distinguished research into "cell-free" biomedical innovations.  These innovations will offer ways to improve a variety of pharmaceutical products.

October 2008

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Names New Executive Director
SBE's Executive Director June Wispelwey will be moving on to take the reins of AIChE as its Executive Director, effective January 1. She will remain Executive Director of SBE until her replacement is named.

March 2008

American Institute of Chemical Engineers and UTEK sign Innovation Services Alliance Agreement 
UTEK Corporation, a leading Open Innovation services company, announced that the AIChE has signed an agreement to co-market the innovation services of UTEK to AIChE's Society for Biological Engineering (SBE).

August 2007

Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Forum in Singapore Features Scientific Breakthroughs from the World s Leading Research Institutions 
Twenty-five international experts will share their new discoveries at the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) s 3rd International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN 2007), which is hosted by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) at Biopolis from August 13 to 15.

June 2007

Conference to Examine Role Technology Can Play in Managing Health Care Costs and Improving Patient Care
The role technology can play in helping the United States manage health care costs by advancing the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease will be examined in a conference at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., on September 25.

March 2007

SBE Consortium Shares Genomic Sequences To Make Drug Development More Efficient
Shared Intellectual Property for Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) DNA Sequencing increases production efficiencies and drug development tools for life-saving medicines

SBE Holds First Conference on Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development
Helen Winkle, Director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Science at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Among Featured Speakers

December 2006

First International Conference On Biomolecular Engineering To Be Held In January
Conference on Biomolecular Engineering from January 14-18 and feature Dr. J. Craig Venter, one of the leading scientists of the 21st Century for his pioneering work with the human genome.

February 2006

SBE Fosters Cell Line Research For Crucial Biological Drug Development  
The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) today announced that it has formed a consortium of leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to advance cell line research that could facilitate drug discovery and increase efficiencies for production for life-saving medicines.

November 2005

Michael Shuler Receives James E. Bailey Award
In a ceremony during the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Michael Shuler was honored for his prestigious career in the field of biological engineering by the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), an AIChE technological community.

September 2005

Student Chapter Conference
The campus of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will play host to a conference of university students and professors interested in the study of biological engineering and establishing student chapters in this area. The first of its kind, this symposium will consist of several seminars and workshops featuring key figures in the field of bioengineering.

August 2005

Advances in Human Health are Focus of 2nd International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Focusing on the latest research at the frontier where science, engineering and medicine meet, the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) is holding its Second International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from September 5th through the 7th.

December 2004

Society for Biological Engineering Announces Executive Director
The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), a technological community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, named June Wispelwey as the first Executive Director.