Bioengineering
Daniel Kamei
Professor
- 5121J Engineering V
- kamei@seas.ucla.edu
- (310) 206-4826
- Fax: (310) 794-5956
Faculty Information
Research and Interests
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Automation
- Molecular thermodynamics
- Transport and kinetic phenomena
Notable Publications and Books
http://kameilab.seas.ucla.edu/publications.html
In the News
- Paper-based test may have ‘huge potential’ identifying, managing leptomeningeal disease | HemOnc Today
- Study seeks rapid, paper-based test to detect cancer cells in cerebrospinal fluid | UCLA Health
- UCLA Scientists Say They Have Developed More Accurate COVID-19 Test | NBC News
- UCLA professors, alumni help create more sensitive coronavirus test kit | Daily Bruin
- Biotech Company Founded by UCLA Engineers Helps Increase Accuracy in COVID-19 Testing | UCLA Samueli
Education
- B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
- Postdoctoral Training with Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger and Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2003
Awards and Recognition
- Developmental Research Award, NIH, UCLA SPORE in Brain Cancer, 2023-2024
- Lockheed Martin Teaching Award, UCLA Engineering, 2017
- Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Fellow (inaugural class), 2016
- UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2015
- Developmental Research Award, NIH, UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE, 2010-2011
- Career Development Award, NIH, UCLA SPORE in Prostate Cancer, 2009-2011
- Early Career Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, 2007-2009
- Northrop Grumman Teaching Award, UCLA Engineering, 2007
- Professor of the Year Award, Engineering Society of UCLA (ESUC), 2007
- UCLA Faculty Career Development Award, 2006-2007
- Kimmel Scholar Award, Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, 2004-2006
- Sloan Foundation/DOE Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology, 2002-2003
- NIH Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training Program Grant, 1999-2001
- DOD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1995-1999
- Best Seminar Award of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, 1998
- Rosemary J. Wojtowicz Award of the MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice, 1996
- UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering, Departmental Citation (top senior), 1995
- UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering, Theodore Vermeulen Award (top junior), 1994