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, […]
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 […]
This year, BU awarded 22 faculty from across the Charles River and Medical Campuses with full professorships, and BUnano faculty member Chen Yang was among them. Professor Yang holds appointments in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Yang holds several prestigious awards for her work, including the […]
The American Physical Society met in early March 2024, and BUnano Faculty showed up in force. Fourteen abstracts, published on the ACS site for this meeting, feature research from seven BUnano Faculty members. Read the abstracts below: March 4, 2024 Ophelia Tsui (Author, Presenter): Correlation between Fragility and Surface Tg of Polymers, Polymer Glasses […]
Current doctoral students pursuing interdisciplinary nanoscience and/or nanotechnology research are invited to apply for the BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. BUnano Fellows are typically second- and third-year graduate students pursuing cutting-edge nano studies across the boundaries of the sciences, engineering or medicine. Applicants must have already identified an interdisciplinary research project, as […]
BUnano faculty have been busy throughout the fall semester, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Browse this fall’s highlights:
Paula Hammond, PhD: Electrostatic Designer Nanocarriers for Targeted Therapies The 2023 Distinguished Biomaterials Lecture was held in conjunction with the TRB-QBP-SB2 Symposium. Read the lecture abstract and speaker bio.
The 2023 BUnano Symposium, held on November 10, featured several exciting talks focused on topics interfacing nanotechnology and RNA with the keynote by Dr. Muthiah “Mano” Manoharan, Senior VP of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. RNA based therapeutics are revolutionizing modern medicine as evident by this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Drew Weissman, a Boston University […]