Featuring Keynote Speaker Nobel Laureate Professor Stefan Hell On May 2, 2017, BUnano held its inaugural symposium, “Nanotechnology for Imaging,” which focused on highlighting accomplishments of BUnano faculty and students, and featured keynote presentation by 2014 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Professor Stefan Hell.
BUnano faculty member Ahmad “Mo” Khalil, a College of Engineering assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded a New Innovator Award under the High-Risk, High-Reward program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His proposed project will focus on developing new and rapid techniques for diagnosing antibiotic resistance to more effectively manage and treat […]
For the first time, researchers have shown that using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can effectively identify bone marrow cancer (myelofibrosis) in an experimental model. The findings, published in the journal Blood Cancer, may change the way this disease is diagnosed which is now through invasive bone marrow biopsies. Myelofibrosis is a slow evolving condition hallmarked […]
Boston University proudly announces the start of the National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship Program (NRT) Understanding the Brain: Neurophotonics (NSF NRT UtB: Neurophotonics). This is a university-wide community of doctoral students in biology, neuroscience, biophysics, biomedical, and mechanical engineering with focused professional development and graduate training in neurophotonics. All current first year BU doctoral students […]
Mark Grinstaff and Marlena Konieczynska have developed a new hydrogen gel that acts as a barrier to infection for burns, keeps the wound moist, and—most important—can be washed off painlessly.
Professors John Ngo and Arturo Vegas received this year’s annual Career Development Professorships. This award recognizes junior faculty who have been at BU less than two years and have been identified as emerging future leaders in their respective fields. Made possible by the support of donors, alumni, and BU’s Technology Development office, these professorships emphasize […]
Gifts endow three new Career Development Professorships, awarded to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty. Keith Brown, an ENG assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a CAS assistant professor of physics, is named BU’s first Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professor.
Boston University researchers have developed a new method that traps drugs or other molecules in tiny cages made of DNA, then releases them once they’ve reached their target – tumor cells, for instance – with a quick flash of light. “Basically it’s sort of a controlled drug release, and there wasn’t a very good approach [to […]
We are pleased to announce that the joint winners (it was a TIE) of the BUnano Best Poster Prize at the 2016 Graduate Research Symposium are Steven Scherr, for his poster entitled, “Disposable Cartridge Platform for Rapid Multiplex Detection of Viruses at the Point-of-Care” and Julia Wang, for her poster entitled, “Stretch-Induced Drug Delivery from […]
BUnano faculty member Katya Ravid, DSc, professor of medicine and biochemistry, recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to France. She is the first to receive this honor in biomedical research at BU. A Fulbright Scholar Award is one of the highest honors the federal government gives with regard to scholarship and international exchange. Recipients […]