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A Disease You May Not Have Heard of Kills 20,000 People Every Year. He’s Working to Combat It.
Visceral leishmaniasis causes 20,000 deaths every year, yet many people have never even heard of it. Hopefully, the opening of a new research and treatment center at Chemolingot Hospital will change both of those things.
August 12, 2019
Dr. Alexander Makarov presenting at Northeastern and the “Past, present, and future of Orbitrap mass spectrometry”
Dr. Alexander A. Makarov, Director of Research at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen, Germany), presented his talk “Past, present and future of Orbitrap mass spectrometry” at Northeastern University.
March 27, 2019
Professor Michael Pollastri talks about his research
Professor and Department Chair Michael Pollastri of Chemical and Chemical Biology sits down with the College of Science Graduate Program staff to talk about his research at Northeastern University.
August 14, 2017
The science behind fireworks
What makes a firework…work? We asked Michael Pollastri, professor and chair of the chemistry department, what’s happening inside those Fourth of July favorites—and which color fireworks are particularly challenging to create.
July 03, 2017
Meet the graduates: Travis DeLano
Travis DeLano is a University Scholar with a near-perfect GPA and a passion for chemistry. Here, he reflects on his past five years at Northeastern and looks ahead to the future.
May 01, 2017
Northeastern's research partnerships in Cuba open the doors to scientific exchange
Northeastern faculty and administrators visited Cuba last week, with members of Congress, to expand upon the university’s academic and research partnerships there, which are paving the way for myriad research opportunities in areas such as coastal sustainability, tropical diseases, and the social sciences. This story is the fourth in our five-part series covering the visit.
March 03, 2017
Northeastern’s research partnerships in Cuba open the doors to scientific exchange
Northeastern faculty and administrators visited Cuba last week, with members of Congress, to expand upon the university’s academic and research partnerships there, which are paving the way for myriad research opportunities in areas such as coastal sustainability, tropical diseases, and the social sciences. This story is the fourth in our five-part series covering the visit.
March 03, 2017
Northeastern chemistry professor awarded $2.6M NIH grant for neglected disease research
Associate Professor Michael Pollastri spent a decade in the pharmaceutical industry before coming to Northeastern University to focus on finding cures for neglected tropical diseases. The NIH grant will help him continue his work in drug discovery for what's commonly known as sleeping sickness.
October 05, 2016
PhD Profile: Dana Klug
Dana Klug, Chemistry PhD candidate, sits down with the College of Science Graduate Program staff to talk about what it’s like to work and study at Northeastern University.
September 12, 2016
3Qs: Four new elements added to periodic table
The seventh row of the periodic table is now complete after Monday’s announcement of four new elements. Chemistry professor Michael Pollastri explains why this is an important milestone for science.
January 05, 2016
New research offers hope in treating sleeping sickness
The neglected tropical disease affects thousands of people and is mostly fatal. Now, new research co-authored by Northeastern chemistry professor Michael Pollastri has identified hundreds of compounds that could lead to a cure.
October 24, 2014
Health professionals talk experiences on front lines of Ebola outbreak
During a keynote address at Northeastern on Tuesday, an epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center who has administered care to Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, noted that more help is needed in Africa to provide healthcare services, adding that "We need help with everything."
October 02, 2014
Students join push to end neglected tropical diseases
A group of Northeastern students has joined the crusade to bring an end to the 17 neglected tropical diseases that affect more than 1 billion people around the world. Called NEU END7, the group has been working since October to raise awareness of NTDs and help eradicate the seven most common tropical infections by 2020.
June 04, 2014
Chemistry professor raises $25,000 for NTD research
In one of the largest science-research-based crowdfunding campaigns to date, Northeastern University College of Science associate professor Michael Pollastri raised $25,031.
January 09, 2014