From Better Batteries to Improved Cartilage Repair, BU Ignition Award Winners Aim for Real-World Impact
Annual honors support innovative Boston University research projects preparing to leap from lab to commercialization
Category: Research Accolades
Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year
Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources
Professor Mayank Varia Wins Best Paper Award for Cryptographic Framework Tackling Legal Accountability
The #MeToo movement, which began as a grassroots effort to expose sexual harassment and abuse, sparked widespread attention to how powerful individuals and institutions avoid consequences.
Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton is BU’s Innovator of the Year
Regenerative medicine researcher is recognized for his work in pioneering lung disease treatments with stem cell technology and accelerating scientific discovery with open-access resources.
ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards
Biomedical engineer and his team will use the funds to develop a new vaccine technology.
BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
Photonics Center Director Thomas Bifano recognized for helping others nurture their ideas and for “always trying to solve problems”.
Three BU Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows
World’s largest scientific society gives lifetime honor to BU biologist, engineer, and physicist.
BU Electrical Engineer Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The award recognizes Goyal’s groundbreaking work in computational imaging, including research to photograph objects hidden by walls and around corners.
Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BU’s Mark Grinstaff
BU’s Distinguished Professor of Translational Research Mark Grinstaff was given a Royal Society of Chemistry prize in “recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.”
An MRI helmet out of ‘Back to the Future’ wins STAT Summit research pick
Representatives from three STAT Madness research teams — Xin Li, Betty Kim, and Xin Zhang — pitched their research at the 2023 STAT Breakthrough Summit.