REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

The confluence of rapid advances in pharmacogenomics, vast data availability and deep learning, the unprecedented scale of systems biology breakthroughs and transformative tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 have shaped this inflection point. Data generated by these, combined with social and environmental factors, have provided the impetus for novel therapeutics and the development of innovative treatment and prevention strategies... The discipline of bioengineering provides the technologies to deliver therapeutics to patients. It crafts the tools that revolutionize diagnostics, treatments, and cures. Medical devices that can be integrated into the body, implantable sensors that monitor biological changes in situ, tissue-engineered constructs for organ replacement, microfluidic cell-culture devices, and neural interfaces-these emerge after engineers translate basic science discoveries into usable tools, devices, and technologies.

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