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Chinese FDA agents visit Northeastern

In early December, a group of government officials and scientists from the Chinese FDA came to Northeastern University for an academic exchange. This marks the second time in the past 2 years that Chinese FDA officials have visited Northeastern University. During the opening ceremony on December 10th Graham Jones, chair of the Department of Chemistry […]
December 15, 2014

Former PhD student helps change potatoes

Haven Baker is in charge of the potato development at Simplot, a company that recently received U.S.D.A. approval to plant its modified potatoes.
November 26, 2014

Dr. Matthias Mann awarded Karger Medal

Professor Matthias Mann, Director in the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalytical Chemistry.
November 18, 2014

Big Data, innovative research

An interdisciplinary group of Northeastern faculty and students led interactive demos and presentations showcasing their research projects that leverage Big Data at the university's sixth Pop Up Open Lab Experience and Reception on Monday.
October 28, 2014

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

Fulton publishes book on addiction treatment

Congratulations to Dr. Brian S. Fulton on the publication of his new book, Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction: Medicinal Chemistry Strategies! The book will be available through Amazon and other book retailers on September 15, 2014.
August 28, 2014

Where to put all the energy

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity con­vened experts from industry, gov­ern­ment, and acad­emia last week to dis­cuss advance­ments in next-​​generation energy storage and bat­tery tech­nolo­gies as well as their com­mer­cial via­bility, which could have a major impact in addressing global chal­lenges in areas such as energy con­sump­tion, mate­rials short­ages, and cli­mate change.
August 26, 2014

The future’s most pressing energy questions

Top researchers, entre­pre­neurs, scholars, and pol­i­cy­makers from Mass­a­chu­setts and Switzer­land con­vened at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity on Friday for an energy summit, where par­tic­i­pants dis­cussed inno­va­tions and strate­gies to address cli­mate change and a range of other global energy challenges.
July 15, 2014

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