The Hannover Exchange Program has provided opportunities for international experiential learning for 30 years. Thanks to grant support from the German Academic Exchange Service, this long running program sends German Master's students to Boston to work in Northeastern labs, as well as sends Northeastern undergraduate co-op students to work in labs at the Leibniz University of Hannover.

Seven Northeastern undergraduates presented posters at the national ASBMB meeting, held in Chicago April 22-26, 2017. The students and the labs where they carry out research are as follows: Ariel Aiken (Beuning lab) Grace DiCecco (Chai lab) Emily Golden (Wood/Makriyannis lab): Tyler Jensen (Monaghan lab) Christopher Joshi (Beuning lab) Housayin Li (Khrapko lab) Claire Williams […]

Biochemistry junior Hilary Wong has just been appointed as a member of the national Pre-dental Advisory Committee of the American Student Dental Association.

Biochemistry sophomore Hannah Tam was awarded one of the 2017 Goldwater Scholarships. The 240 Goldwater Scholars were selected based on academic merit from a field of 1,286 natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering students nominated by the campus representatives from among 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide.

Northeastern University’s Barnett Institute is a chemical analysis and research center that is home to cutting-edge interdisciplinary work that spans across Boston, from local hospitals and medical centers to various biotech/biopharma and instrument development companies. Since its founding in 1973, scientists within Barnett have produced more than 1,000 published papers and won millions of dollars in grant money, and now they have one more accolade to add to that extensive…

The Biochemistry Program congratulates the 47 Biochemistry majors who graduated in 2016.

The Biochemistry Club was recently awarded a national award, as well as one from Northeastern University.

Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair at Northeastern and Founder and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery (CDD), has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award for 2015.

Professor H. William Detrich of the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences has had an island named for him.

In Jan­uary, a research team including Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Kim Lewis and Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Slava Epstein pre­sented a newly dis­cov­ered antibi­otic that elim­i­nates pathogens without encoun­tering any detectable resis­tance. The ground­breaking research swept the globe, and now one analysis indi­cates that the paper topped the list of the 100 sci­en­tific arti­cles receiving the most media buzz and online atten­tion in 2015.

Biology professor Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein have been named Global Thinkers of 2015 by Foreign Policy.

Dr. Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Biology, and Dr. Erin Cram, Associate Professor of Biology, have received a $650,000 grant from the NSF to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus, also known as the Madagascar periwinkle. They hope to better understand the function of zinc finger transcription factors (ZCTs), a set of regulatory factors that influence drug production levels.

Kevin Gozzi started working in assistant professor Win Chai’s microbiology lab during his first month at Northeastern. Now, the fourth-year biology student is the co-first author of the lab’s most recent publication, which centers on chemical signals that stimulate bacterial biofilm formation and the underlying mechanisms. Basically, when it comes to involvement in on-campus research, Gozzi is living every science major’s dream.

A deep read about Professor Slava Epstein's research, discoveries, and painting skills