News
Aug 02, 2023
Bioengineering Capstone Team Featured in NSIN Newsletter
The National Security Innovation Network featured Northeastern’s bioengineering Capstone Team D in their national newsletter last month. The capstone project “Drone-Aided Forest Health Monitoring for Sustainable, Regulation-Conscious Harvest of Wood Biomass,” sponsored by the NSIN and Space Force, was selected out of all their sponsored projects across the country.
Jul 20, 2023
Spring 2023 Spark Fund Awardees
MIE Associate Professor Randal Erb, ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong, ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of the Spring 2023 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.
Jul 12, 2023
Selected as Runner-Up in SB3C Student Paper Competition
Ana I. Vargas, PhD’24, bioengineering, was chosen as the runner-up in the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, & Biotransport Conference (SB3C) Student Paper Competition for the “Morphogenesis, Maternal/Abdominal Health” competition category.
Jul 07, 2023
Minkara Serves as Moderator for Intersection of Disability Panel
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara served as a moderator for the “Intersection of Disability Panel” at the Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: A National Leadership Summit held on June 5, 2023.
Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Noble
Stephanie Noble joins the Bioengineering department in July 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Psychology.
Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Amir Vahabikashi
Amir Vahabikashi joins the Bioengineering department in July 2023 as an Assistant Professor.
Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Ning Wang
Ning Wang joins the Bioengineering department in July 2023 as a Professor.
Jul 05, 2023
$3.8M NIH Award on the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Effects of E-cigarettes and Cigarettes
BioE Associate Professors Chiara Bellini and Jessica Oakes received a $3.8 million NIH grant for “Cardiopulmonary Outcomes of Dual Cigarette and E-cigarette Use in Animal Models of Chronic Exposure.”
Jun 27, 2023
$2M NIH/NHGRI Grant To Develop a Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer Based on Engineered High-Resolution Nanopores
Meni Wanunu, associate professor of physics and bioengineering affiliated faculty member, received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for “Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA Nanopores for Electroosmotic Stretching and Sequencing Proteins”.
Jun 12, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Understanding Cell-Fate Transitions for Tumor Development
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Brown University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, is leading a $1.2 million NSF grant for determining the “Regulation of Cellular Stemness During the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).”