ACHIEVEMENTS
Daniela Valdez-Jasso, PhD
Assistant Professor of BioengineeringNational Science Foundation Awardees
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award 2020 -2021
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Ester Kwon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Karen Christman, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering
2021 Clemson Award for Applied Research
Biomaterials Society acknowledges Professor Christman's pioneering vision in biomaterials
This is awarded to an individual whose accomplishments include significant utilization or application of basic knowledge in science to achieve a specific goal in the field of biomaterials.
“Karen has pioneered the use of injectable biomaterials to treat tissue after myocardial infarction (MI),” wrote nominator Jason Burdick, PhD. “This is an area that has grown greatly in the biomaterials community in the past decade, where biomaterials have been developed to deliver various biological and mechanical signals to the myocardium to improve outcomes of tissue remodeling.”
Stephanie Fraley, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioengineering2021 UC San Diego Integrity Champion
"Courage is the Key"
The UC San Diego Integrity Champion reward is intended to recognize actions or activities that are above and beyond those normally expected based on the individual's role within the University.
Quickly moving to Remote Instruction at the end of WI20 caused many integrity challenges for the entire community. For this 11th Annual Integrity Awards Nomination process, nominations that recognized the challenging environment and how community members rose to those challenges were included.