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06/08/18 – BOSTON, MA. Jared Auclair poses for a portrait on June 8, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Biotechnology

They’re Using Virtual Reality to Ensure Patients Get Safe and Effective Drugs

Northeastern’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory is teaming up with Agilent, a lab equipment manufacturer, to expand its ability to help researchers worldwide make quality drugs.

May 11, 2020

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

On the Front Lines of COVID-19 with COS Alumna Dr. Ali Wallace

The Biochemistry '13 alumna took time out of her busy schedule to give us an on-the-ground look at COVID-19 preparations at MGH and to discuss her formative experience here at Northeastern.

March 19, 2020

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cannabis Products Are Everywhere. But What Do They Actually Do?

Researchers at Northeastern and Loyalist College in Ontario, Canada, are teaming up to train graduate students in the analytical techniques required to investigate cannabis, and help them understand the regulatory landscape in both Canada and the U.S.

January 13, 2020

10/25/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Kim Lewis, a University Distinguished Professor of Biology and Yu Imai, a postdoctoral research associate at LewisÕ lab, hold a petri dish encasing darobactin, a new type of antibiotic that can selectively kill Gram-negative bacteria. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

A New Antibiotic Has Been Hiding in the Gut of a Tiny Worm. It May Be Our Best Weapon Against Drug-resistant Bacteria.

After two years of work, a team of researchers led by Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of biology, announced their discovery of darobactin, which can kill resistant microbes known as gram-negative bacteria.

November 21, 2019

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotechnology

Iron: The Swiss Army Knife for Bacteria

Dr. Yunrong Chai and his team discovered new, essential uses for iron in biofilms, the bacterial populations that colonize our bodies, our hospitals, and our world.

November 04, 2019

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Small Pharma: Inside the World of Orphan Diseases, with Alumna Agnes Rafalko

Agnes Rafalko got her PhD in proteomics and nanomedicine at Northeastern. She now works as the Chief Scientific Officer of Glycomine, a startup she herself founded that works on drugs for orphan diseases.

September 17, 2019

David Luzzi, Senior Vice Provost-Research & VP Innovation Campus and Killian O’Driscoll, Director of Projects, NIBRT, sign the BATL-NIBRT Memorandum of Understanding during the Saving Patient Lives: The Role of Biomanufacturing and Bioanalytics symposium held in Building V on Northeastern’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts on Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Northeastern Establishes Global Partnership to Improve the Quality of Medicine

Northeastern has joined with a research and training center in Ireland to prepare the next generation of scientists, engineers, and lab technicians to produce high quality drugs for patients around the world.

September 11, 2019

Biotechnology

MS Biotech Student Divya Parikh Honored as 2019 Forbes Under 30 Scholar

Divya Bharat Parikh, a Northeastern student working towards her MS in Biotechnology, was honored as a Forbes Under 30 Scholar at the 2019 Forbes Under 30 Summit.

September 10, 2019

08/13/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen work in their lab in Hurtig Hall on August 13, 2019. Beuning and Ondrechen analyze amino acids to to create a new way of identifying what different proteins in our body do. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern are using a combination of computational predictions and experimental testing to explore the connection between the chemical make-up of an enzyme and its function.

August 21, 2019

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

Biotechnology

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

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.

August 09, 2019

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

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

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.

June 13, 2019

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

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

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

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.

April 29, 2019

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

Biochemistry, Biotechnology

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

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.

April 08, 2019