Darash and Grace’s paper on HIV diagnostics published in Lab on a Chip. Congrats Darash and Grace!

December 2nd, 2010 in Lab News, LEED Staff Updates 0 comments

Title: Grand Challenges Review: Tackling HIV through Robust Diagnostics in the Developing World: Current Status and Future Opportunities

The article is available to institutional journal subscribers in both HTML and PDF formats at the following link:
http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C0LC00340A

Grace Wu wins CIMIT graduate fellowship

November 19th, 2010 in Lab News, LEED Staff Updates 0 comments

Grace Wu, a LEED member and a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering has received CIMIT graduate fellowship for her work on a comprehensive cell phone based multiplexed device for rapid HIV detection. The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technologies or CIMIT will provide tuition, stipend and travel funds to Grace. Grace is one of two BU students to win this prestigious fellowship. Grace will use these funds to develop and implement a novel cell phone based system for rapid detection and accurate counting of CD4 in remote, resource limited settings.

Clinton Global Initiative University

November 17th, 2010 in LEED Staff Updates 0 comments

An interesting opportunity - consider submission!

Dear Students,

UC San Diego and former President Bill Clinton will host the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting next spring to engage the next generation of leaders from around the world. I hope you'll consider submitting an application to be a part of this special gathering, which will be held on our campus from April 1-3, 2011.

http://www.cgiu.org/Default.asp