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Jul 21, 2022
Li Receives Grant to Protect Against Poultry Diseases
The laboratory of BioE Assistant Professor JIahe Li received an industry grant from Eco Animal Science in the United Kingdom, one of the largest global animal health companies, to develop genetically modified probiotics against enteric diseases in poultry.

Jul 15, 2022
Nature Biotechnology Published a Framework for Multiplicative Scaling of Single-Cell Proteomics Developed in the Slavov Laboratory
The laboratory of Allen Distinguished Investigator and BioE Associate Professor Nikolai Slavov published “Increasing the throughput of sensitive proteomics by plexDIA” in Nature Biotechnology.

Jul 13, 2022
BioE Alum Wins 2022 Innovator Award
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, was the first place winner of the 2022 Innovator Awards given out by Northeastern’s Women Who Empower in the young alumnae graduate category, which she will use to develop a robotic arm that can sign in ASL.

Jul 08, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Miten Jain
Miten Jain joins the Bioengineering department in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Physics.

Jul 08, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Esin Sozer
Esin Sozer joins the Bioengineering department in July 2022 as an Assistant Teaching Professor.

Jul 07, 2022
Sontag Receives MURI Grant for Synthetic Biology
Distinguished University Professor Eduardo Sontag (ECE, BIOE; affiliate in Mathematics and ChE) and collaborators received a $7.5M award ($1.25M to Northeastern University) entitled “Rules of composition in synthetic biology across scales of complexity: theory and tools.”

Jun 14, 2022
First Year UPLIFT Scholar’s Research Leads to Summer REU at Harvard University
During her first year as an UPLIFT Scholar, Kaitlyn Ramesh, E’25, bioengineering, conducted research under the mentorship of Mingyang Lu, assistant professor of bioengineering and researcher in the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. She worked on developing a pseudotime algorithm that uses temporal single-cell RNA sequencing data. From this experience, Ramesh was selected for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates summer program at Harvard University. She will work at a biophysics lab involved in the Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative.

Jun 08, 2022
Announcing the New MS in Bioengineering Concentration: Systems, Synthetic, and Computational Bioengineering
The Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University is driven by the conviction that the interface of engineering and medicine is one of the great intellectual adventures of the 21st century. […]
May 25, 2022
2022 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The College of Engineering Departmental Co-op team was proud to celebrate the 9th Annual Co-op Awards with our recipients on May 16, 2022, at the Cabral Center in the John […]
May 18, 2022
Summer 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Summer 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.