Faculty Research
Nov 13, 2019
Approaching Research From a Different Perspective
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara, who has been blind since she was seven, has learned to approach research from different angles which is helping her determine how vaping affects lung function.
Nov 12, 2019
AHA Grant to Explore the Innervation of Arterial Grafts
Associate Professor Guohao Dai from the Department of Bioengineering, Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes and Abigail Koppes from the Department of Chemical Engineering were awarded $200K from the American Heart Association (AHA) Innovative Project Award for “Bioengineer an autonomic neurovascular system to explore the innervation of arterial grafts”.
Aug 23, 2019
Levine Uses Theoretical Physics to Make Sense of Cancer
COS/BioE Professor Herbert Levine collaborates with cancer biologists to explore fundamental questions, such as how cancer spreads and why immunotherapies only work for certain patients.
Aug 20, 2019
Bajpayee Awarded NIH Trailblazer R21 Grant
BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee(PI) and Jiahe Li (co-PI) were awarded a $628K NIH Trailblazer grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for “Anti-Catabolic Drug Anchored Cationic Exosomes For Cartilage Targeting And Repair”.
Aug 06, 2019
Using Collagen to Help Repair Tendons
BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti is developing a method to use collagen to help speed up the recovery after a tendon is injured.
Jul 10, 2019
Improving Protein Measuring Technology
Bioengineering Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov has developed a breakthrough method of identifying more than a thousand proteins per cell which could help map the functions of them throughout the body.
Jun 27, 2019
Predicting Protein Functions from 3D Structures
ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus (co-PI) and affiliated BioE Professors Mary Jo Ondrechen (PI) and Penny Beuning (co-PI) were awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Mining for mechanistic information to predict protein function”.
Apr 09, 2019
FY20 TIER 1 Award Recipients
25 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY20 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different projects representing up to $900K dollars of investment in research.