News
Sep 27, 2018
Oakes & Bellini Awarded $1.5M FEMA Grant to Study Health Effects of Wildland Fire Smoke to Firefighters
BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini were awarded a $1.5M award from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG), administered through The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate, for examining the “Health Consequences Following Acute and Chronic Firefighter Exposure to Wildland Fire Smoke.”
Sep 26, 2018
Studying the Long-Term Health Hazards of E-Cigarettes
BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini are studying the health effects of vaping versus traditional combustible cigarettes.
Sep 16, 2018
Embark, Volume II Published
Embark, Northeastern’s Undergraduate Engineering and Applied Sciences Review, has published their second volume. Go check it out here! Research was executed by undergraduate students across an array of fields. Content […]
Aug 30, 2018
Understanding Motor Cortical Organization
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Tunik (PI) and co-PI ECE Professors Deniz Erdogmus and Dana Brooks were awarded a $600K NSF grant, in collaboration with Wasim Malik from MGH, for “Understanding Motor Cortical Organization through Engineering Innovation to TMS-Based Brain Mapping”.
Aug 21, 2018
$1M NSF Grant to Advance the Study of Single-Molecule Research
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti (co-PI) along with bioengineering affiliated and College of Science faculty, including Professor Mark Williams (PI), and Associate Professors Penny Beuning (co-PI), Meni Wanunu (co-PI), and Ke Zhang (co-PI) were awarded a $1M NSF grant for the “Acquisition of a Lumick’s SuperC-TRAP correlative optical tweezers and fluorescence microscope (CTFM) system.”
Aug 03, 2018
Pioneering single cell proteomics
The article “Transformative Opportunities for Single-Cell Proteomics”, which is research from BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov’s Laboratory, is featured on the cover of the Journal of Proteome Research.
Jul 17, 2018
Sontag to Work in Collaboration on $1.5M NSF/SRC Grant
ECE/BioE Professor Eduardo Sontag, in collaboration with Dr. Chris Voigt from MIT and Dr. Kate Adamala from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, was awarded a $1.5M three-year grant jointly funded from the National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation for “Very Large-Scale Genetic Circuit Design Automation”.
Jul 16, 2018
Helping Babies Breathe
BioE PhD student and co-founder of Therapeutic Innovations, Solomon Mensah, has developed a device called Airbaby which will help deliver ambient air and oxygen to premature babies allowing them to breathe.
Jun 20, 2018
1st Annual Bioengineering Research Symposium
On June 20th, 2018, the Department of Bioengineering held its first annual Research Symposium, organized by the Graduate Student Council. The half-day event showcased the cutting-edge research of our Students, […]
Jun 13, 2018
Northeastern Engineering Hosts First Single Cell Proteomics Conference
The 1st Single Cell Proteomics (SCP) Conference was recently held at Northeastern which focused on demonstrating the feasibility of quantifying thousands of proteins in single cells by mass-spectrometry