News
Mar 26, 2022
Ruberti Selected as AIMBE Fellow
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for fundamental insights into the assembly of connective tissue and translation […]
Mar 07, 2022
Research to Help Unlock the Mystery of How Cancer Spreads
Bioengineering Professor Mark Niedre and Assistant Professor Chiara Bellini received a 5-year, $2.7M grant titled “Continuous, Non-Invasive Optical Monitoring of Circulating Tumor Cell-Mediated Metastasis in Awake Mice” from the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health. The project will develop a new instrument (“w-DiFC”) for optically detecting and counting rare circulating tumor cells continuously and non-invasively in awake, freely-moving mice.
Feb 23, 2022
$3.4M NIH ONES Award to Study the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Human Health
BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini were awarded a 5-year, $3.4M NIH grant for “Cardiopulmonary Risk Assessment from Smoke Exposure at the Wildland Urban Interface.”
Feb 17, 2022
Method to Detect and Locate Small Tumors
BioE Associate Professor Qianqian Fang was awarded a patent for designing a “Method to localize small and high contrast inclusions in ill-posed model-based imaging modalities.”
Feb 17, 2022
Sign Language Robot You Can Feel
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, created the tactile sign language robot, TATUM, for people who are deaf and blind to communicate. Related Article: Using Robots to Help Blind […]
Feb 04, 2022
2022 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Bioengineering students Amanda Dee, E’23, and Giona Kleinberg, E’23, were nominated for the 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Feb 04, 2022
Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Jan 28, 2022
Measuring Viral Concentrations and Infectivity
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard and Affiliated Faculty Meni Wanunu were awarded a $250K PFI-TT NSF grant for “Developing an integrated platform for high accuracy measurements of viral particle count and infectious titer.”