LAB NEWS & OUTREACH
Our paper on A Mediator-free Electroenzymatic Sensing Methodology to Mitigate Ionic and Electroactive Interferents’ Effects for Reliable Wearable Metabolite and Nutrient Monitoring, led by Xuanbing, Bo, and Yichao, is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
December, 2019
"The paper published by Professor Emaminejad’s group is featured in ACS Editors’ Choice. ACS Editors’ Choice is an honor given to only one article from the entire ACS portfolio each day of the year and the selected paper is made open access due to its potential for broad public interest." UCLA ECE Newsroom
December 2019
Betto Cerrillos wins the prestigious Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers' Undergraduate (SHPE) Scholarship. Congratulations!
October 2019
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has announced the election of Professor Emaminejad as a Senior Member. NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing and commercialization and have produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society.
August 2019
I²BL is selected as a winner of the UCLA Health Innovation Challenge in the Medical Technology/Digital Health category. The program aims to support efforts geared at advancing long-lasting health and wellness solutions.
July 2019
Professor Emaminejad is highlighted as the Featured Scientist by the PhRMA Foundation. Congratulations!
July 2019
Professor Emaminejad gives an invited talk at Presidential Symposium at the 2019 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting and discusses the role that the technology can play in addressing the pressing needs of mental health research, diagnosis, and treatment.
May 2019
Hannaneh Hojaiji wins The Best Poster Award in the UCLA ECE Annual Research Review.
March 2019
Professor Emaminejad received NSF CAREER Award to advance personalized medicine.
March 2019
ECE’s Professor Emaminejad receives PATHS-UP Innovation Seed Fund grant.
March 2019
Hannaneh Hojaiji receives special recognition of NSF's Honorable Mention.
March 2019
Hannaneh Hojaiji receives special recognition in the Honorable Mention List of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Ford Foundation).
March 2019
Professor Emaminejad presents the roadmap for the future of wearable health and wellness monitoring technologies in the keynote session of UCLA's 2nd Annual Bioengineering Research Day.
February 2019
Shuyu Lin ranks first on preliminary examination of ECE department's PWE track.
January 2019
ECE’s Professor Emaminejad receives the University of Waterloo’s Young Alumni Achievement Medal.
November 2018
Professor Emaminejad is selected to participate in NAE’s 2018 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
June 2018
Hannaneh Hojaiji wins the Christina Huang Memorial Prize and Engineering Achievement Award.
June 2018
Hannaneh Hojaiji wins the Eugene V. Cota-Robles four-year fellowship.
May 2018
Hannaneh Hojaiji wins Madni Scholarship in Engineering.
March 2018
Professor Emaminejad gives an invited talk at Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications Conference, presenting the current status and challenges of wearable sweat-based performance monitoring, and highlighting the future rewarding opportunities ahead.
May 2018
I²BL wins the UCLA ECE Annual Research Review 2018 best project awards in all three categories: Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentations (graduate and undergraduate). Congratulations on this Hat-trick!
March 2018
I²BL collaborates with CEED at UCLA to support diversity in engineering and raise the next generation of successful engineers.
September 2017
Congratulations! I²BL receives a collaborative $1M grant from NSF to develop a non-invasive and wearable molecular diagnostic platform for remote and passive monitoring of patients at risk for sepsis.
August 2017
High school student, Roberto Frias, contributes to research and presents his poster.
August 2017
Andrew and Aaron Wilhelm present at Wireless Health Institute.
August 2017
‘‘Sweat is a very complex sample. It has a lot of proteins, metabolites, electrolytes—all this molecular-level information.’’ according to Professor Emaminejad.
June 15, 2017
Professor Emaminejad in an interview with UCLA Newsroom explains "Sweat-based monitoring has a huge potential to facilitate non-invasive and continuous monitoring of individuals in a wearable format."
April 24, 2017
The sweat sensor is the first step in what Professor Emaminejad hopes will become an “ecosystem of sensors” monitoring physiological signals in our blood, sweat, and urine. It’s also part of a broader revolution in “bioelectronics” that is helping to achieve faster, more accurate, and more convenient diagnoses.
April 23, 2017
A wearable sensor that extracts sweat and analyzes its constituents could be a useful device for diagnosing and monitoring diseases.
April 17, 2017
“We realized if we wanted to find meaningful information from sweat, we needed to measure a bunch of things at the same time,” says Professor Emaminejad, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and Former Stanford postdoctoral scholar “The vision is to get as much data as possible.”
Jan 27, 2016