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Sep 26, 2019
ChE PhD Student, Zach Rogers, Joins Northeastern’s NSF I-Corps Program
Zach Rogers, a Chemical Engineering PhD student in Prof. Sidi Bencherif’s Lab, was selected to join Northeastern University’s NSF I-Corps Program with his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels as a fast and inexpensive technology for hypoxic cell culture conditions”.
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Sep 20, 2019
Treating Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
ChE Professor Thomas Webster and his colleagues are using bacteria to develop nanoparticles that will combat antibiotic-resistant infections.
Sep 12, 2019
ChE PhD students Bahram Saleh & Caterina Bartomeu Garcia are Finalists for Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research
Chemical Engineering PhD students Bahram Saleh and Caterina Bartomeu Garcia, from Professor Thomas Webster’s nanomedicine lab, have been called finalists for the upcoming AIChE 2019 annual meeting podium graduate student award competition in Microbiointerface Research. The students will be judged for the quality of the presentations and research on microbial interaction with biomedical interfaces.
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Sep 11, 2019
Bencherif’s Research Featured on Cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials
ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s research is featured on the front cover page of the September issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials.
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Sep 09, 2019
West to Work on Collaborative NSF Grant to Further Develop Cantera Open-Source Modeling Software
ChE Associate Professor Richard West is part of a $2.5M NSF collaborative effort to further develop and support the successful and popular open-source modeling software Cantera, a suite of tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.
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Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Sara Hashmi
Sara Hashmi joins the Chemical Engineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.
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Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones joins the Chemical Engineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.
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Aug 27, 2019
Auguste Awarded Patent for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was awarded a patent for “Cationic polymers as co-drugs for chemotherapeutic agents”. Abstract Source: USPTO A method for treating a biological cell is disclosed. The method administers a mixture of a chemotherapeutic drug and a co-drug that facilitates delivery of the chemotherapeutic drug to the nucleus of the cell. Examples of […]