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Stay connected with the latest breakthroughs in biological design with The Biodesign Bulletin. This recurring digest highlights new research, major publications, center updates, and upcoming opportunities.
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Breakthroughs in Biotechnology Lecture: Dana Braff, PhD, Principle Scientist, GRO Bioscience
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. More
Breakthroughs in Biotechnology Lecture: Elnaz Atabakhsh, PhD, Senior Product Manager for Multiplex Assays, Abcam
FirePlex is a biomarker profiling platform that enables multiplex detection of miRNA and protein biomarkers directly from small inputs of biofluid and tissue sample types. The FirePlex platform is specifically designed for biomarker discovery and verification studies, offering both pre-designed and custom panels for critical research areas of interest. More
Chris Chen Receives Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award
“I’m honored to receive the Pritzker Award and join the highly distinguished list of past recipients to champion the importance of biomedical engineering,” says Chen. “I’m looking forward to sharing our work at the annual BMES meeting next October. More
Breakthroughs in Biotechnology Series Lecture: Michele Marcolongo, PhD, Co-founder and Chairman at Geliflex
What if that research that you’ve been working on day and night for years suddenly shows a very exciting result? Congratulations, you’ve made a new discovery! Now what? Before you publish your game-changing results you may want to disclose the discovery to the technology transfer office so that they can file intellectual property protection for it. More
Sgro Lands Grant to Study One of the National Science Foundation’s Big 10 Ideas
Assistant Professor Allyson Sgro (BME) has been awarded a two-year $150,000 grant under the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 10 Big Ideas program to elucidate how cells work together to form groups. More
Allyson Sgro, Jeroen Eyckmans, and Chris Chen Win Deans Catalyst Award
Three BDC team members have won a 2017 Deans Catalyst Award from the BU School of Engineering to pursue a collaborative research project on multi-cellular signaling and communication in wound healing: More
Jessica Tytell moderates industry transitions panel at MassBio conference
Jessica Tytell, executive director for the Biological Design Center, will be moderating a panel at the MassBio/MassBioEd Life Sciences Workforce Day. The Conference will advance discussion on workforce development issues related to the life sciences industry and seeks to increase engagement and collaboration between higher education and industry. More
Trevor Siggers wins 2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education
BU Biology’s Professor Trevor Siggers has been awarded Boston University’s 2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! As explanation for their choice of Professor Siggers for this prestigious award, the Dean’s office notes that Siggers was “chosen by a committee of faculty colleagues from a very strong group of nominees to receive this honor. More
Biological Design Center Kickoff Symposium and Cantor Lecture
Please join us on June 1st, 2017 for a kickoff celebration and Inaugural Symposium marking the official opening of the Biological Design Center (BDC) at Boston University. This all-day event will feature talks by distinguished scientists and engineers working on diverse aspects of biological design More
2nd Annual BDC Symposium
The 2nd Annual BDC Symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 16th from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM. The day will consist of short talks from each lab and poster sessions. More