News
Oct 26, 2018
Biomaterials in Translational Medicine
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster has published the book “Biomaterials in Translational Medicine” which delivers timely and detailed information on the latest advances in biomaterials and their role and impact in translational medicine.
Oct 24, 2018
Student Selected as Future Leader in Chemical Engineering
Fifth-year Chemical Engineering student Gabrielle Rabadam was selected for the Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium at North Carolina State University. The symposium selects the top ~20 undergraduate researchers for a one and a half day conference and awards ceremony. Students are selected based on their academic performance, significant research contributions, and demonstrated potential for a […]
Oct 22, 2018
A big breakthrough for regenerative medicine?
BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov has devised a method to identify more than a thousand proteins in an individual cell and estimate their abundance.
Oct 19, 2018
Quickly Diagnosing Infections Leads to Faster Treatments
ChE Associate Professor Edgar Goluch created the company QSM Diagnostics to help diagnose bacterial infections in animals quickly which would allow for faster treatments.
Oct 18, 2018
Carrier Receives $1.57M in Renewal of NIH Grant
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier was awarded a four-year $1.57M renewal NIH grant for “Impact of lipids and food on oral compound absorption: mechanistic studies and modeling.” Abstract Source: NIH The overall goal of this project is to enable mechanistic understanding and quantitative prediction of the influence of ingested lipids and food on orally delivered compound absorption. […]
Oct 17, 2018
Changing the Way We Treat Cancer
Quad Technologies, which was co-founded by ChE Professor Shashi Murthy, Sean Kevlahan (PhD ’13), Adam Hatch (PhD ’14), and Brian Plouffe (PhD ’11), and recently acquired by Bio-Techne, has developed a material, called QuickGel, that can be used to isolate genetically engineered T-cells that would allow a patient’s immune system to target the cancer.
Oct 15, 2018
ChE Student Wins Best Oral Presentation Award at ICNANO 2018
1st-year Chemical Engineering PhD student Ada Vernet received an award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 3rd Baltic Conference Series: International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology (ICNANO) 2018 for her research on “Synthesis and characterization of tellurium nanowire using both chemical and green routes and their comparison in terms of biocompatibility and anticancer properties”.
Oct 09, 2018
Prof. Landherr to deliver engineering education lectureship at UConn
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr will be the inaugural speaker of the G. Michael Howard Engineering Education Lectureship, to be held at the University of Connecticut.