November 5, 2025 – BUnano Faculty Prof. David Bishop was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society. The Society acknowledged Prof. Bishop’s groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional […]
October, 2025: BUnano Faculty Prof. Chris Chen elected to the National Academy of Medicine BU Biomedical Engineer Christopher Chen Elected to National Academy of Medicine | The Brink | Boston University
BUnano Center director Prof Mark Grinstaff and BUnano fellowship alumni Dr. Brett Tingley, Sarah Adams, Dr. Andrew Martin and Dr. Aaron Colby collaborated on a recent publication in Life Science Alliance highlighting their research on using nanoparticles for antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections. Endolysosome-targeted nanoparticle delivery of antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/4/e202403182
The Brink features Prof. Chris Chen’s research. Prof Chen is BUnano Faculty and founding director of BU’s Biological Design Center, which aims to improve our understanding of how cells and biological systems work, and then find ways to control them for our benefit. Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future | […]
BUnano Faculty Dr. Kamil Ekinci’s work is featured in Applied Physics Letters https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0215566
Click here to register. Abstract: Translation research in an academic environment depends on a support system — people, goals, models, partnerships, and infrastructures — that will push promising basic science and technology projects forward into the clinic. To make translational medicine work, all these stakeholders with different perspectives must work in concert. That requires novel, […]
Monan Ma: Making Big Waves with Nanotechnology in the Ekinci Lab | Photonics Center Monan Ma researches phenomena on the nanometer scale, but he’s no small figure at the Boston University Photonics Center. …. “When you start out doing something cross-disciplinary, it sounds great on paper,” he says, “but when you actually do it, there’s always […]
November 18, 2024 3:30-5:00 PM Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Rm 101) Michael J. Mitchell, PhD Lipid Nanoparticles for Overcoming Biological Barriers to RNA Delivery
BUnano faculty member Xi Ling was recently awarded tenure alongside a promotion to Associate Professor. Professor Ling holds appointments in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering and has earned several prestigious awards for her work, including the NSF Career Award, BU Ignition Award, BU MSE Innovation Award, BU Provost’s Career Development Professorship, and MIT EECS […]