William H. Grover
Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside | loves microfluidics, sensors, and weird computers | hates fake medicines | groverlab.org
- Reposted by William H. GroverToday, on World Cancer Day, we're launching EveryDoseMatters: a global cancer safety campaign that aims to help patients and healthcare providers prevent, detect and respond to fake cancer medicines. Are you a healthcare provider or cancer patient? Visit everydosematters.org for resources & info!
- Reposted by William H. GroverThe 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 114 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
- Reposted by William H. GroverCheck out our *incredible* online event this Thursday: the 2026 Virtual Eaton Symposium! Panelists include speaker Ken Liu, some UC Riverside alumni & current doctoral students, incredible librarians + book lovers + authors + editors, and THEE Sheree Renee Thomas! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
- Reposted by William H. GroverWe've got 4.5 hours to go until midnight and @riversiderecord.bsky.social needs 27 more first-time donors! I know y'all can help get this little newsroom of mine over the finish line so we can secure an additional $1,000 in funding. Donate here: riverside-record.fundjournalism.org/newsmatch/
- The twins really got into @tmbg.bsky.social’s music this year, so you know what that means they’re getting for Christmas:
- Reposted by William H. GroverWe are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
- Reposted by William H. GroverOur plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪
- I'd never heard the term "Groverhaus" before today, and as a Grover, I'm 49% peeved to have something like this associated with my name, and 51% admitting that "trying to build a DIY addition to my house that breaks every possible code" is totally the kind of thing that I would do. 🫣
- Here's the AI-created Groverhaus that made me aware of the term:
- Reposted by William H. GroverExciting opportunity to join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov as a Scientific Engineering Associate, focusing on self-driving labs. Link below: lbl.taleo.net/careersectio...
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- Good morning from Riverside, where a blanket of fog made Mt. Rubidoux and the Jurupa Hills look like islands in an inland sea.
- Japanese-style sandwiches at 7-Eleven in the US? I'm intrigued... The egg salad seemed pretty accurate, though the bread was maybe not as sweet and soft as the Japanese version. Anyway 7/10 and much cheaper than a flight to Tokyo
- Reposted by William H. GroverI wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6
- I would have loved this assignment as an undergrad: Learning how an instrument works by taking one apart 🧪
- 'Increasing Student Understanding and Technical Skills in Instrumental Analysis: Piloting a Student-Led Instrument Deconstruction with a Decommissioned ICP-MS' from Journal of Chemical Education is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/A8FsoUG
- Days like this provide a rare insight into how much of our technology runs on Amazon’s infrastructure.
- Excellent reporting by NPR's @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social about the latest case of poisonous diethylene glycol in cough syrup in India. Listen to the audio - it's a captivating 3-minute crash course on why this keeps happening:
- Reposted by William H. GroverToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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- Reposted by William H. Groverquick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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- My favorite Robert Redford movie, though lately it feels like a relic from a time long gone.
- ❤️❤️❤️ these posters in the Geology building at UC Riverside ❤️❤️❤️ Seriously, why aren't we putting messages like these everywhere? I'd happily chip in some pro-NSF and pro-NIH billboards? 🧪
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- Our latest preprint on medRxiv: Identifying counterfeit medications using a $4 optical sensor meant for use in toy robots. 🧪💊🤖 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- "Disintegration Fingerprinting" converts the disintegration and dissolution of a pill into a digital fingerprint. We used it to test 32 different drug products and found that it correctly identified 90% of these pills. 🧪 Read more at www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 😍😍😍 Physical controls instead of touchscreens, and I'm confident it won't try to shove AI down my throat. 😍😍😍
- Memorette, a 1960s shopping list tablet. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/m... No batteries needed.
- "The Weight of a Cell" by Niko McCarty in Asimov Press 🧪 (Includes a project I was involved with back at MIT 15 years ago)
- Queen Anne Cottage at the LA County Arboretum
- Plumeria at LA County Arboretum
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- Reposted by William H. GroverNEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
- Guess how I found out that a pecan log looks just like a block of plastic explosives on an airport security scanner?
- Reposted by William H. GroverWe're recruiting a lab technician to assist with our ongoing liquid biopsy projects. Please encourage those with relevant experience to apply. Feel free to contact me with questions! tinyurl.com/prattlabtech
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- Thanks to @shabbirsafdar.bsky.social and @safemedicines.bsky.social for having me on the Partnership for Safe Medicines podcast! I had a great time chatting with Shabbir about my lab's work developing tools for fighting fake medicines. Listen to the episode here: www.podbean.com/media/share/... 🧪
