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/
BUnano Center is accepting applications for 2021-22 BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships. The application due date has been extended to September 3, by 5pm. For details and eligibility, visit the program page.
Avak Kahvejian, PhD Partner Flagship Pioneering “Institutional Entrepreneurial Innovation: Fireside Chat with Avak Kahvejian, Flagship Pioneering” Thursday, April 15, 4-5pm (ET) REGISTER HERE SUBMIT QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE At this Fireside Chat, TRB Director Mark Grinstaff will interview Dr. Avak Kahvejian. The content of this interview will be based on audience interests. When you register for […]
12/21/2021 BUnano Faculty Prof. Jerome Mertz is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year. Jerome Mertz, a Boston University College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and of electrical and computer engineering and a BU College of Arts & Sciences professor of physics, holds six issued patents for technologies that have greatly advanced microscopic imaging quality […]
9/15/2020 BUnano Faculty Prof. Joyce Wong receives the prestigious Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials.