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09/14/15 - BOSTON, MA. - Jared Auclair, Director Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory, leads the 2016 APEC Biotherapeutics Centers of Excellence Pilot Training at the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington on Sept. 14, 2016. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory offers hands-on sessions for individuals from academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory agencies in manufacturing and regulating drugs. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

They’re Ensuring Quality Medication Gets to the Patients Who Need It

Biotechnology

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is funding BATL's efforts to expand their ability to train people in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in new medications, such as biologics.

Northeastern graduates Francis Nimick, left, and Amanda Stroiney, right, work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer. Stroiney says that she wouldn’t be working at Outcomes4Me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if not for the opportunity to do co-op at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of the university’s CaNCURE program. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

The Program That’s Training the Students who could Transform Cancer Treatment

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Northeastern graduates work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer.

Jared Auclair, the director of Northeastern’s BATL, principle investigator and the lead researcher for the grant proposal. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

BATL Awarded $4.3M MLSC Grant to Expand Facilities, Provide Biomanufacturing Trainings

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Northeastern's Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory was accepted into the 2019 Competitive Capitol Program, enabling the expansion of the campus and improvement to the biomanufacturing industry.

Debra Auguste, a professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, designed a new way to target triple-negative breast cancer that simultaneously delivers a cancer-killing drug and interferes with the cancer’s ability to grow and spread. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

This New Drug Design Provides Hope for Patients With an Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

Biotechnology

Debra Auguste a professor of chemical engineering, designed a new way to target triple-negative breast cancer that simultaneously delivers a cancer-killing drug and interferes with the cancer’s ability to grow and spread.

Photo courtesy of Dr. Broadbent

Dr. Kevin Broadbent, Associate Teaching Professor, Biotechnology

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Dr. Kevin Broadbent explains what drew him to Northeastern, while also highlighting the outstanding biotechnology department here on campus.

Postdoctoral fellow Dali Wang designed a polymer that can carry RNA-based drugs around the body. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

A Microscopic Structure Could Make Drugs More Effective in the Fight Against Cancer, Genetic Disorders, and Viral Infections

Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Led by associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Ke Zhang, researchers at Northeastern helped design a polymer that can carry drugs targeting genetic diseases around the body.

Sequencing the genome of the blackfin icefish might help us better understand anemia, osteoporosis, and other aliments. Photo: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Blood, Anemia, and Osteoporosis. And They Feel Just Fine.

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, a leader of an international collaboration that has recently sequenced the genome of the blackfin icefish.

Picture of Ken Henderson sitting at a table.

On Monday, Ken Henderson takes on a new role as Northeastern’s first chancellor. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Meet Northeastern’s First Chancellor

Biotechnology, College of Science

Previously the Dean of the College of Science, Ken Henderson has been appointed as the first Chancellor of Northeastern University.

01/09/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Professor Dagmar Sternad studies human movement with Boston ballet dancers in her lab on January 9, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

What Can Ballet Dancers Teach Us About Balance?

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Biotechnology

Biology Professor Dagmar Sternad takes a deeper look at the human body's ability to balance.

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Six Northeastern Professors Named to List of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ Around the Globe

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Physics

Six Northeastern University professors have been featured in the "The 2018 Highly Cited Researchers" list, which ranks researchers around the world who have produced papers that come in at the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.

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