# Daniel Kamei

PROFESSOR
BIOENGINEERING

5121J Engineering V

Email: kamei@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-4826
Fax: (310) 794-5956

Websites

- Kamei Group Website

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Automation
- Molecular thermodynamics
- Transport and kinetic phenomena

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

http://kameilab.seas.ucla.edu/publications.html

##### IN THE NEWS

- 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