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Biochemistry Major Earns a Goldwater Award

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.
April 18, 2017

Barnett Institute researcher awarded $1.5M grant

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…
January 13, 2017

Longtime Northeastern chemist receives prestigious AAPS award

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.
March 02, 2016

Northeastern research the buzz of 2015

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.
December 16, 2015

COS professors get NSF grant to study production of cancer drugs.

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.
December 14, 2015

Northeastern research team uncovers explanation for biofilm formation

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.
December 14, 2015

ASBMB recognizes Northeastern’s chapter

Northeastern's Chapter of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has been recognized for their work in organizing an inter-school event for November 8, 2015 called "The Active Site: Promoting Favorable Interactions Among Undergraduates."
October 20, 2015

ASBMB recognizes Northeastern's chapter

Northeastern's Chapter of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has been recognized for their work in organizing an inter-school event for November 8, 2015 called "The Active Site: Promoting Favorable Interactions Among Undergraduates."
October 20, 2015

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