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Oct 17, 2016

Professor Srinivas Sridhar Receives Three New Grants

Congratulations to COS Professor (BioE & ChE Affiliated Professor) Srinivas Sridhar who has recently received three new grants totaling $1.13M. 1. Quantitative Neurovascular Imaging for Drug Abuse Research (NIH/NIDA grant). The Sridhar group has developed a new ground-breaking technique QUTE-CE MRI that leads to quantitative MRI imaging with unprecedented clarity and definition using magnetic nanoparticles. […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering

Oct 11, 2016

Slavov Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and a $2.35M grant to study "Ribosome-Mediated Translational Regulation during Stem Cell Differentiation".

Bioengineering

Sep 27, 2016

Bioengineering PhD Candidate Jaclyn Lock awarded Travel Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Jaclyn Lock, a Bioengineering graduate student working under the advisement of Professor Rebecca Carrier of Chemical Engineering, was awarded a Travel Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Jaclyn will be attending the AIChE annual meeting taking place in San Francisco, CA from November 13-18 to present her work related to intestinal inflammation. Her talk, entitled […]

Bioengineering

Sep 21, 2016

Critical Insights for Treating Alzheimer’s

BioE Professor & Chair Lee Makowski is studying Alzheimer's progression to better develop treatments for the disease. Source: News @ Northeastern New research led by Northeastern University suggests that Alzheimer’s disease may not progress like falling dominoes, as conventional wisdom holds, with one molecular event sparking the formation of plaques throughout the brain. Instead, it […]

Bioengineering

Sep 01, 2016

New Faculty Spotlight: Chiara Bellini

Chiara Bellini joins the Bioengineering department in Fall 2016 as an Assistant Professor.

Bioengineering

Sep 01, 2016

New Faculty Spotlight: Guohao Dai

Guohao Dai joins the Bioengineering department in Fall 2016 as an Associate Professor.

Bioengineering

Sep 01, 2016

New Faculty Spotlight: Jessica Oakes

Jessica Oakes joins the Bioengineering department in Fall 2016 as an Assistant Professor.

Bioengineering

Jun 20, 2016

Frozen Sample Extraction

Bioengineering Professor Jeffrey Ruberti was awarded a patent for “Systems, methods, & devices for frozen sample distribution”.

Bioengineering

Jun 01, 2016

Fang Awarded $1.7M NIH Grant

BioE Assistant Professor Qianqian Fang was awarded a five-year $1.7M NIH grant for "A Versatile High-Performance Optical Mammography Co-Imager".

Bioengineering

May 18, 2016

Two ECE PhD Students Win Best Poster Award at 2016 High Performance Computing Day

Phd Students Fanny Nina-Paravecino and Leiming Yu received a best poster award at the 2016 High Performance Computing Day held at UMASS Dartmouth. Both Fanny Nina-Paravecino and Leiming Yu are PhD students in the Northeastern University Research Group (NUCAR) under Professor Dave Kaeli. Their NIH-funded research is led by PI Professor Qianqian Fang from the Department of Bioengineering. The ECE […]

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering