Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year
Cheng was chosen for his innovations in biomedical engineering, including inventing a treatment for MRSA and imaging molecules inside living cells.
Category: Research Accolades
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future
Electrical and computer engineer Selim Ünlü’s lab is filled with the future, a hotbed of technological innovation that brims with gadgets. Much of what’s happening sounds like it could’ve been pulled straight out of science fiction: high-resolution subsurface imaging techniques to study the spectroscopy of quantum dots, nanoscale microscopy to examine fluorescent molecules, imaging biosensors […]
Joyce Wong Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Joyce Wong’s work with Biomaterials and their interactions with cells has earned her a place in the National Academy of Inventors as a new fellow. Her research focuses on the treatment of several medical conditions, including pediatric heart ailments, cancer, and women’s reproductive health. Wong has earned four issued patents, more than 100 publications, and […]
Optical Pioneer Jerome Mertz Is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year
“It’s easy to come up with ideas but it’s hard to make those ideas have an impact,” said Jerome Mertz, our newest recipient of BU’s Innovator of the Year Award. Mertz, holds six issued patents for technologies that have greatly advanced microscopic imaging quality and capabilities. His inventions throughout his time at BU have made […]
Three BU Research Teams Win First Kilachand Fund Awards
In 2018, BU trustee Rajen Kilachand (Questrom’74, Hon.’14) made the largest gift in Boston University’s history: $115 million. From that gift, $100 million established an endowment, the Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, to support interdisciplinary research and solutions to some of today’s most vexing societal woes and medical diseases. Now, the […]