Posts Tagged ‘facultyresearch’
Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering
Adam Arkin has been granted an award of over $20 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to pursue microbiome engineering to create probiotic bacterial communities that prevent and treat lung pathogens.
Read MoreDelcassian receives seed funding for cancer research
Professor Derfogail Delcassian has been awarded $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of her work on targeted molecular therapies for hard-to-treat cancers.
Read MoreAcid-degradable lipid nanoparticles enhance the delivery of mRNA
Research by Niren Murthy’s lab presents a new acid-degradable linker that rapidly hydrolyzes in endosomes but is stable in the blood, which could significantly increase the efficiency of delivering mRNA-based therapies to cells.
Read MoreNew recyclable adhesives can be easily adapted for medical, consumer and industrial applications
Messersmith Lab has created a family of polymers from a stabilized alpha-lipoic acid which could lead to versatile, high-performance and environmentally friendly recyclable adhesives.
Read MoreRevealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes
Adam Arkin’s lab has developed a new technique, barcoded overexpression bacterial shotgun library sequencing (Boba-seq), that will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes.
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