Category: News

Summer 2023 Recap: Faculty Spotlight

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 […]

The Brink features Ignition Award-funded research by Drs. Wong and Grinstaff

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 […]

Nanotechnology solution to NAFLD – study reported in Nature Communications

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 […]

BUnano Center opens call for 2023/24 Crossdisciplinary Fellowship Applications

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 […]

TRB Distinguished Speaker Lecture April 25

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

TRB Seminar: Institutional Entrepreneurial Innovation: Fireside Chat with Avak Kahvejian, Flagship Pioneering

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 […]

Faculty News

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 […]