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Iron: The Swiss Army Knife for Bacteria

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotechnology

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.

Agnes Rafalko, Chief Scientific Officer at Glycomine

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

Biology, Biotechnology

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.

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

David Luzzi, senior vice provost for research and vice president of Northeastern’s Innovation Campus, and Killian O’Driscoll, who directs projects at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research, sign a partnership agreement on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern Establishes Global Partnership to Improve the Quality of Medicine

Barnett Institute for Chemical & Biological Analysis, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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.

Divya Bharat Parikh is a Northeastern graduate student studying biotechnology.

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

Biotechnology

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.

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

Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are developing new ways to predict the function of an enzyme by looking at the roles of the individual amino acids that make up its structure. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever

Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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.

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

Biochemistry, 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.

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