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Aug 29, 2022
Bajpayee Awarded R21 Grant to Develop Therapies for Treating Lower Back Pain
BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee, in collaboration with Nadeen Chahine from Columbia University Health Sciences, was awarded a $222K R21 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for “Sustained Delivery of RhoA activator for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.”
Aug 10, 2022
Dai Selected for BMES Board of Directors
BioE Associate Professor Guohao Dai was selected to be on the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Board of Directors. He will assume the position after the annual meeting in October.
Jul 28, 2022
Revolutionizing the Tissue Repair Process
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, created the spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics to develop a new process to repair soft tissue.
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.