Category: News Releases

IGERT Undergrad, Mathew Chamberlain, aka ‘Veteran of the Research Lab’ Date: 12/03/2010 Northeastern University undergraduate student researcher Mathew Chamberlain doesn’t like to waste time. In the morning, he parses The New York Times’ science news, reads the latest issue of Nature magazine and goes to calculus class. For the rest of the day, he investigates…

IGERT Recruits at GEM Grad Lab Date: 09/25/2010 The IGERT Nanomedicine Program was proud to recruit at the Annual Massachusetts Consortium of S.T.E.M Programs, in conjuction with Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, GEM Grad Lab – Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees Laboratory. The event is designed to inform and motivate students from underrepresented…

“Intro to Nanoworld” Series Carries on! Date: 07/14/2010 IGERT’s “Intro to Nanoworld” presentation series carried on into its fourth year straight this summer with presentations given to students from the Exxon Mobile summer camp hosted by Northeastern University. Lara Jabr-Milane presented her series to 50 junior high school students with efforts to spark their interest in nanomedicine and its applications….

IGERT Trainees Attend, and Win, at UT Austin IGERT Workshop! Date: 04/19/2010 IGERT trainees, Kathy Chaurasiya and Joslynn Lee, were selected to attend the 2010 Inter-IGERT Nanoscience and Professional Development Workshop hosted by the Trainees of the UT Austin IGERT (in Atomic and Molecular Imaging). The workshop was designed for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) students…

IGERT Nanomedicine Trainees and Associates show up big at 2010 NU Research Expo Date: 03/24/2010 Undergraduate Associates Craig Levy and Lauren Moore presenting their work at the 2010 NU Research Expo.   IGERT Nanomedicine Trainees and Associates show up big at 2010 NU Research Expo Students from the IGERT Nanomedicine program made a big showing…

Breakthrough technology for testing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s drugs Date: 02/17/2010 In a breakthrough development for early drug research, Northeastern University scientists are now able to test, in real time, the impact of new drugs being developed to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. A patented new imaging technology developed by Northeastern’s Center for Translational…

Nanotechnology collaboration aimed at curing cancers with “smart implants” Date: 12/21/2009 Researchers at Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute (eMRI) are collaborating with two Harvard Medical School researchers to develop a nanotechnology-based “smart implant” to treat cancer. The device could improve the efficiency of radiation and drug-based treatments for lung, pancreatic and prostate cancers. Professor and…

IGERT Trainee, Lara Jabr, wins ISPE poster competition Date: 05/08/2009 On May 8 2009, IGERT Trainee, Lara Jabr, won the Boston ISPE poster competion. She will be traveling San Diego in November to compete in the ISPE international competition….

IGERT Nanomedicine Fellow, Padmaja Magadala, wins second place for research presented at the AAPS-NERDG Academic Research Award poster competition Date: 04/25/2008 Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Targeted Engineered Gelatin Nanovectors for Gene Delivery and Transfection in Pancreatic Cancer Cells Padmaja Magadala and Mansoor Amiji* Purpose: Over 90% of human pancreatic cancer expresses epidermal growth factor family of…

Sridhar gives talk at Northeast Bioengineering Conference at Brown Date: 04/07/2008 The following article was featured in the April 2008 edition of Providence Business News. To really understand nanomaterials, engineer them and put them to work fighting disease and saving lives, you need to have technology that has been developed in recent years, said Srinivas…