News
Sep 16, 2020
Koppes and Bencherif Published in Bioelectricity
ChE Assistant Professors Ryan Koppes and Sidi A. Bencherif were published in Bioelectricity for their research on “Electroconductive Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering: Current Status and Future Perspectives.”
Sep 16, 2020
Third COE Startup Acquired in Three Years
The Northeastern Spinout, Flaskworks, founded by former ChE Professor Shashi Murthy, was acquired in August by Northwest Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company specializing in personalized immune therapies, for approximately $4.33 million.
Sep 14, 2020
ChE Graduate Student Jiaming Xu Now Published in AIChE Journal
ChE PhD Graduate Student Jiaming Xu co-authored a paper with ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung and Associate Professor Steve Lustig titled “Power generation from waste heat: Ionic liquid‐based absorption cycle versus organic Rankine cycle” which was published in the AIChE Journal.
Sep 14, 2020
Bencherif Lab Receives NSF I-Corps Teams Award
The Bencherif lab received a $50K NSF award for “Oxygen-controlling Cryogels for Cell Culture Applications” to participate in the national NSF Innovation Corps Teams program.
Sep 10, 2020
Faculty and Staff Awards 2020
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2019-2020 academic school year.
Sep 03, 2020
Abigail and Ryan Koppes Featured on Inside Front Cover of Advanced Biosystems
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes’ research on “Reconfigurable Microphysiological Systems for Modeling Innervation and Multitissue Interactions” was published in the September issue of Advanced Biosystems.
Sep 03, 2020
Fang and Koppes Receive $2.2M NIH Award Leading to State-of-the-Art Electrophysiological Capabilities
ECE Assistant Professor Hui Fang (PI) and ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes (co-PI), in collaboration with UCLA and Boston Children’s Hospital, received a $2.2M NIH grant for “Novel transparent, ultra-soft neuroelectrode arrays based on nanomeshing conventional electrode materials.” In this study, they propose to prove a novel electrode concept, nanomeshing conventional electrode materials, can lead to state-of-the-art electrophysiological capabilities while allowing at the same time, optical and chronic-bio- compatibilities. Besides enabling new hypothesis-driven neuroscience studies from overcoming major barriers of integrating in-vivo electrical recordings with optical approaches, the proposed research will also provide unique opportunities for next-generation therapeutic interventions via sustainable neural prosthetics.
Sep 02, 2020
New Faculty Spotlight: Rebecca Willits
Rebecca Willits joined the Chemical Engineering department in July 2020 as Professor and Chair.