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Yartsev wins Richard Lounsbery Award

Thu, 01/23/2025 - 10:46

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Michael Yartsev will receive the 2025 Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences to recognize his extraordinary scientific achievement in advancing our understanding of the neural basis of natural behaviors.
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Diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley

Tue, 12/03/2024 - 19:48

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BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.
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Stevens BME Graduate Programs Information Sessions

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:19
Please join faculty from Stevens Institute of Technology for a virtual information session on master’s and Ph.D. programs in Biomedical Engineering With attendance of an information session, the application fee is waived Wednesday, November 20th 6-7 pm: Ph.D. program information 7-8 pm: Master’s program information Register and join one or both sessions! Master’s program website Ph.D. program overview and […]
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Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper

Tue, 11/12/2024 - 12:23

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Trinh Lam, a postdoc in Amy Herr's lab, has won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award from AIP Publishing at the 28th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS 2024).
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Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?

Tue, 11/05/2024 - 11:04

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Murthy lab and UC Davis have developed a unique mRNA delivery method for in-utero gene editing for neurodevelopmental conditions.
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Thermostable Cas9 Enhances RNP Performance in Lung and Liver

Tue, 11/05/2024 - 10:56

Drawing of the LNPs encapsulating iGeoCas9 RNP

Niren Murthy and collaborators have developed a more stable version of the Cas9 enzyme to improve delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) for in vivo gene editing.
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Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering

Tue, 11/05/2024 - 09:58

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Professor 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.
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Engineering and Imaging Summer Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Fri, 11/01/2024 - 16:02
Announcing the 2025 Engineering and Imaging Summer research immersion Program sponsored by the graduate school of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.   We invite current engineering sophomores and juniors interested in using engineering skills to tackle the open questions in biomedicine in labs at MSK for a 10-week immersive in-person summer research experience in NYC. We […]
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