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How to Battle Disease Using Big Data

At the latest installment of the "Minds over Matters: NUterm Faculty Speaker Series," Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor Alessandro Vespignani described how his lab is able to predict the spread of a disease by tracking one person.
May 20, 2015

The Journey of a Disease

In an effort to visu­ally rep­re­sent just how easily a dis­ease can spread across the globe, researchers at Northeastern’s MoBS Lab looked to a mode of trans­porta­tion that makes it rel­a­tively easy to get around: a subway system.
April 08, 2015

Big Data, Innovative Research

In one section of Snell's Library's Digital media Commons on Monday afternoon, a large computer screen displayed a dazzling visualization of a hypothetical outbreak of a flu-like disease originating in Chicago.
October 28, 2014

'Small' Transformation Yields Big Changes

An inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of researchers led by North­eastern Uni­ver­sity has devel­oped a novel method for con­trol­lably con­structing pre­cise inter-​​nanotube junc­tions and a variety of nanocarbon struc­tures in carbon nan­otube arrays.
September 26, 2014

New Grant Supports Co-ops in Cancer Nanomedicine

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity has received a five-​​year, $1.15 mil­lion grant from the National Insti­tutes of Health’s National Cancer Insti­tute to train the next gen­er­a­tion of cancer nanomed­i­cine sci­en­tists and clin­i­cians through a unique expe­ri­en­tial learning program.
August 19, 2014

$1.15M Grant Awarded to New Co-op Program in Cancer Nanomedicine

Physics Professor Srinivas Sridhar has received a $1.15 million grant titled “CaNCURE: Cancer Nanomedicine Co-ops for Undergraduate Research Experiences” funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health. This 5-year grant is a collaboration between Northeastern University and Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
August 06, 2014

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