News
Nov 21, 2019
ChE Students Chris Meehan and Michael Parrish win Northeastern’s PEAK Ascent Award
ChE undergraduate student Chris Meehan and BioE undergraduate student Michael Parrish were awarded Northeastern’s PEAK Ascent awards.
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”.
Oct 24, 2019
COE Students Nominated for Most Prestigious Postgraduate Awards in the World
Congratulations to Jaclyn Long, Kritika Singh, and Michael Tormey for being nominated for the Marshall Scholarship, Mitchell Scholarship, and/or the Rhodes Scholarship.
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”.
May 13, 2019
2019 COE Co-op Awardees
Congratulations to this year’s COE Co-op Award recipients who were recognized for their professional development and achievements resulting from their co-op experiences.