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 […]
“The multifaceted translational value of stem cell biology: disease “treater” vs. disease “unraveller”” November 27, 2023 4:00-5:00 pm LSE 103 Jump to Registration Abstract The field of stem cell biology has evolved over the 4 decades since its inception. Stem cells have always been viewed as components of fundamental developmental programs. However, our ability […]
“Biomaterials for delivering on the promise of immunotherapy” November 17, 2023 12:30-1:30 pm PHO 203 Jump to Registration Abstract Immunomodulatory therapies have advanced to clinical trials over the past decade for the treatment of a range of diseases and disorders, from cancer to diabetes to transplant rejection. However, the efficacy of these therapies remains limited, […]
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently awarded to three researchers working with “quantum dots,” nanoscale crystals so small that their size determines their properties. One such property is color, which was utilized in the early 1980s by awardee Alexei Ekimov to create quantum effects in glass. Later, awardee Louis Brus demonstrated size-dependent quantum […]
BUnano faculty have been busy all throughout the summer, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Here are this summer’s highlights: Chuanhua Duan: Rewritable nano print of ionic liquids utilizing focused ion beam induced film wetting under review in Nature Portfolio Jerome Mertz: High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled […]