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Daniel T. Kamei, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Bioengineering
420 Westwood Plaza
5121J Engineering V
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Email: kamei@seas.ucla.edu
Tel: 310-206-4826

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Engineering, 2001-2003
Advisors: Douglas A. Lauffenburger and Bruce Tidor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, June 2001
Thesis: Protein and Viral Partitioning in Two-Phase Aqueous Micellar Systems
Thesis Advisors: Daniel I.C. Wang and Daniel Blankschtein
Minor: Statistical Thermodynamics 

M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice, June 2000
Participated in on-site projects at Merck and Company and Molten Metal Technology. 

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Highest Honors, May 1995
Emphasis: Biotechnology
Minors: Chemistry and Asian American Studies

AWARDS AND HONORS

2017
2016
2015
2010 - 2011
2009 - 2011
2007 - 2009
2007
2006 - 2007
2004 - 2006
2002 - 2003
1999 - 2001
1995 - 1999
1998
1996
1995
1994
1993
Lockheed Martin Teaching Award, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Fellow (inaugural class)
UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Developmental Research Award, NIH, UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE
Career Development Award, NIH, UCLA SPORE in Prostate Cancer
Early Career Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
Northrop Grumman Teaching Award, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science 
Professor of the Year Award, Engineering Society of UCLA (ESUC)
UCLA Faculty Career Development Award
Kimmel Scholar Award, Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research  
Sloan Foundation/D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology 
N.I.H. Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training Program Grant 
D.O.D. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Best Seminar Award of the Department of Chemical Engineering at M.I.T. 
Rosemary J. Wojtowicz Award of the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice
Department of Chemical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, Departmental Citation (top senior)
Northern California Section Award of the A.I.Ch.E.
Phi Beta Kappa
Department of Chemical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, Theodore Vermeulen Award (top junior)
A.I.Ch.E. Annual Chapter Award for Scholastic Achievement
Department of Bioengineering | UCLA 
420 Westwood Plaza | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 
kamei@seas.ucla.edu