Category: News Releases

Students Explore Nanomedicine Research on CaNCURE Co-ops Date: 06/23/2015 In August 2014 we announced an exciting new cancer nanomed­i­cine research co-op pro­gram called CaN­CURE, which gives scores of North­eastern stu­dents the oppor­tu­nity to work in cutting-edge lab­o­ra­to­ries at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and North­eastern in the area of cancer nanomed­i­cine. This month, the program’s…

IGERT Trainees, Codi Gharagouzloo and Ben Geilich, Winners at NEU RISE 2015 Date: 04/09/2015 IGERT Trainees, Codi Gharagouzloo and Ben Geilich, were each named winners in different categories of Northeastern University’s Annual Research, Innovation and Scholarship (RISE) Expo. Ben won in the category of Engineering and Technology for his poster titled “Silver Nanoparticle-embedded Polymersome Nanocarriers…

Full on Outreach by IGERT trainee, Samira Faegh Date: 06/06/2013 IGERT Trainee, Samira Faegh, spent her summer tutoring 10 Roxbury Community College undergraduate students. The project included modeling, building and optimizing a high quality factor resonating circuit. The sessions started by  teaching the students about the technical and scientific background of the project and was then followed by extensive…

IGERT Director, Sri Sridhar, on broadening participation at IGERT PI Meeting 2012 Date: 06/19/2012 Source: IGERT.org http://player.vimeo.com/video/43553730…

Paper by IGERT trainee, Brian Plouffe, is among the Hottest Research Articles of 2011 in J Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Date: 03/27/2012 Abstract The utility and promise of magnetic nanoparticles (MagNPs) for biomedicine rely heavily on accurate determination of the particle diameter attributes. While the average functional size and size distribution of the magnetic nanoparticles…

NU on IGERT trainee, Samira Faegh, and her micro-cantilever approach to cancer diagnostics Date: 02/02/2012 Miniature seesaw to diagnose cancer? Mechanical Engineering grad student Samira Faegh is attempting to revolutionize biosensor technology, which can be used in a variety of settings to detect anything from pathogens to blood glucose levels to molecular indicators of cancer….

IGERT trainee, Matt Dubach, featured in MITs Technology Review Date: 07/20/2011 Source: Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38065/?p1=A1&a=f…

NU IGERT Nanomedicine trainees on YouTube! Date: 06/10/2011 Take a tour with three former IGERT trainees, Brian Plouffe, Tatyana Chernenko and Yogesh Patel and see for yourself some of the outstanding research of the IGERT Nanomedicine Program at Northeastern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCa1Iv6OSJs…

IGERT Trainee Brendan Harmon Receives ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award Date: 02/02/2011 Brendan Harmon, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, working in Professor Barbara Waszczak’s laboratory had received the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Graduate Student Travel Award. Brendan’s doctoral thesis research focuses on “Intranasal Delivery of pGDNF-Expressing Nanoparticles…

IGERT Nanomedicine Program Recognized on IGERT.org Date: 01/21/2011 The IGERT Nanomedicine Program at Northeastern University has recently been recognized by IGERT.org for its accomplishments for the 2009-2010 year.  Four “Highlights” have been added to the site. Please click on each individual highlight listed below to read more: Multimodal Theranostic Nanoplatforms in Cancer Therapy 10 Poster Winners:…