Faculty News
MCBB Faculty in Engineering Awarded $1.5M DOE Grant
Three ENG researchers, Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME), Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME), and Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, Chemistry, Physics), were awarded a three-year, $1.5M Department of Energy (DOE) grant to develop technology to better understand and measure the synthesis of biofuels in living cells.
Read the full article in BME News
Dr. Christine Cheng Awarded National Institute On Drug Abuse Grant
Department of Biology Assistant Professor Christine Cheng and Assistant Dean of Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Professor (BUMC) Andrew Henderson received a three-year, $2.9 million R61 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health to study the effect of opioid use disorder on HIV latent reservoirs and immune dysfunction.
Dr. Juan Fuxman Bass Receives Outstanding Investigator Award from NIH
Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass has received a 5-year $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health to study the transcriptional regulation of immune genes and explore how this regulation is perturbed by viral agents.
“This grant provides the lab with a lot of freedom to explore novel research avenues,” said Dr. Fuxman Bass, Assistant Professor of Biology.
The MIRA is a grant that provides support for the research program in an early stage investigator’s laboratory. This grant aims to increase the stability of funding, which could enhance the investigator’s ability to take on ambitious scientific projects and approach problems more creatively.
Dr. Karen Allen Featured in C&EN
From BU Chemistry News:Professor Karen Allen‘s work with Dr. Barbara Imperiali of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and their research groups work on the 2.7-Å-resolution crystal structure of a phosphoglycosyl transferase called PglC were featured in C&EN Structural Biology on May 23rd, 2018.
As Co-PI on a National Institute of Health grant, Dr. Allen and Dr. Imperiali’s work on PglC has allowed them to uncover the enzyme’s unique mechanism, which permits hydrophilic and hydrophobic molecules to interact without ever having to leave their natural environments.
Dr. Catherine Klapperich’s Research Featured in BU Research
Read the full article in BU Research
Dr. Kathleen Morgan’s Collaborative Work Featured in BU Today
Dr. Kathy Morgan, a professor at Sargent College and Dr. Tyone Porter, pose for a photo on Wednesday, December 20, 2017.
The team are working at “the interface of the cardiovascular system and the brain.”
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography
Read the full article "Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles" in BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/hearts-minds-and-microbubbles/
Dr. Beeler Awarded a $975k Grant from DARPA
Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler was recently awarded a $975,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled “High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) for Reaction Screening.” The funding, which will last a year, will help Professor Beeler and his Co-PI’s, Professors Scott Schaus andJohn Porco of Chemistry and Professor Eric Kolaczyk of Mathematics, develop a proof-of-concept High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) capable of interrogating unexplored chemical “reaction space”. The platform will be used to significantly expand the scope and knowledge around known reactions and to discover unknown transformations through reaction discovery.
Dr. Vegas Awarded a Two-Year Grant from Combined Therapeutics
Assistant Professor Arturo Vegas was recently awarded a $255,000 grant from Combined Therapeutics. This nontraditional corporate funding, which will last for 2 Years, will help Professor Vegas as he aims to reduce the immunogenicity and alter the tissue tropism of viral-based therapies.
Dr. Douglas Densmore Named Top-Five Innovator by Design Automation Conference
Read the full article in the Fall 2017 Bostonia.
Dr. Emili Heads New Center for Network Systems Biology
Read the full article in BU Today.