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Engineering for Women’s Health Conference 2025
Engineering for Women’s Health (Eng4WH) is a multi-campus affinity group started by graduate students from Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University with the goal of promoting technology that can impact women’s lives. Eng4WH aims to cultivate interdisciplinary dialogues and foster collaborations to advance women’s health. We strive to provide a... More
Women’s Health Research on Tap
Register Wednesday, November 6 | 4-6 pm Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Room 101) 610 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 For much of the 20th century, clinical research predominantly involved male participants, with the assumption that findings would apply equally to women. Concerns about hormonal fluctuations and reproductive health risks led to the exclusion of women, More
Klapperich and DAMP Laboratory Awarded MLSC Women’s Health Collaboration Grant
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Women’s Health Collaboration program supports collaborative projects that aim to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health. The Center awarded Dr. Klapperich and her industry partner, BioSens8, LLC, $805,660 to support their project "Novel... More
Women’s Health in Engineering Initiative May Meetup
RSVP for Dinner
March Student Meeting of the COE Women’s Health in Engineering Initiative
Women’s Health in Engineering Event 2/15/24
Graduate students, please join us.
Relationship Between Nostril Viral Loads and Symptoms in COVID-19
Comparison of anterior nares CT values in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 in a university screening program Abstract (from PLoS ONE, July 13, 2022) At our university based high throughput screening program, we test all members of our community weekly using RT-qPCR. RT-qPCR cycle threshold (CT) values are inversely proportional to... More
Nature Communications Paper on a New Progesterone Biosensor is Out!
A progesterone biosensor derived from microbial screening Chloé Grazon, R C. Baer, Uroš Kuzmanović,Thuy Nguyen, Mingfu Chen, Marjon Zamani, Margaret Chern, Patricia Aquino, Xiaoman Zhang, Sébastien Lecommandoux, Andy Fan, Mario Cabodi, Catherine Klapperich, Mark W. Grinstaff, Allison M. Dennis & James E. Galagan Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 1276 (2020) Abstract Bacteria are an enormous and largely untapped reservoir of biosensing proteins. We describe an approach to identify and isolate bacterial allosteric transcription... More
RNA Extraction Methods Archive
Protocols, papers, and links for nucleic acid extraction from human samples without using a "kit." You can do it! And we can help. Check it out. https://www.bu.edu/klapperich/rna-and-dna-extraction-protocols-and-papers/
New Molecular Test for Malaria Paper Online!
Online article! Work with our partners describes a new way to mine the malaria genome to create primer sets that are 100x more sensitive at detecting malaria when compared to Pf18S rRNA primers. The new assay was validated with human samples. Srinivasa Raju, L., Kamath, S., Chandana Shetty, M., Satpathi, S., More