“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 […]
BU research publication The Brink featured Drs. Mark Grinstaff, BUnano Director, and Wilson Wong in a recent article highlighting faculty research funded by the BU Ignition Awards. The Ignition Awards help fund innovative faculty research across all of BU’s campuses that have clear commercial potential. Drs. Grinstaff and Wong are utilizing this award to supercharge […]
From The Brink: BUnano Center Director Mark Grinstaff was recently awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize in “recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.” Read the full article here.
An international team of scientists led by BUnano Center Director Dr. Mark Grinstaff, Dr. Orian Shirihai (UCLA), and BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowship Alumna Dr. Jialiu Zeng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) reports on a new type of nanotechnology as a potential first-in-kind therapeutic for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which affects 20 to 30% of the world’s […]
2023/24 BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowship Applications are due June 9, 2023. BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowships provides training and stipends to talented applicants who have completed one or two years of graduate study in the sciences, engineering, or medicine and identified a research project, possibly leading to a dissertation, that combines their primary discipline with another discipline. For […]
Linda Griffith, Ph.D. (MIT) Apr 25, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6 pm Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Rm 101) “Deconstructing and Reconstructing the (Gynecology) Patient” “TRB Distinguished Speaker Event
Several BUnano Faculty received Kilachand Awards in 2021 for pushing limits of science: read below about innovations by Drs. Xin Zhang, Stephan Anderson, Aaron Beeler & Mo Khalil. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/five-studies-pushing-the-limits-of-science/