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Fighting NTDs Through Crowdfunding

Professor Michael Pollastri is creating a new platform to share data with international researchers focused on neglected tropical diseases.
October 30, 2013

Crowdfunding drug discovery

The secrecy model that dominates drug discovery doesn't work for neglected tropical diseases. Associate Professor Michael Pollastri hopes to shift that paradigm with a new platform for secure data-sharing.
October 28, 2013

Chemistry professor named to Power List

He has helped guide close to 200 students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff members, and now Dr. Barry Karger has been named to The Analytical Scientist’s POWER LIST.
October 16, 2013

Creating a better drug to treat psychiatric disorders

I first became interested in drugs to treat brain diseases with I was a pharmacy student at Northeastern in the early 1980s. After I got my PhD in medicinal chemistry at the University of California–San Francisco, I returned to Boston for a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. At the time, I was drawn to research on neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s. But by 1987, I switched to neuropsychiatric diseases,…
August 30, 2013

‘Faster, cheaper, cleaner’

North­eastern is one of 20 U.S. uni­ver­si­ties committed to a greener way of doing and teaching chem­istry.
August 07, 2013

‘Battery’ to the Future

Mehmet Ates and Matthew Trahan are working with research pro­fessor K. M. Abraham to develop the next gen­er­a­tion of energy effi­cient lithium bat­teries.
June 06, 2013

Northeastern’s Biochemistry Club Wins National Award

Congratulations to the Northeastern University Biochemistry Club for receiving the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Undergraduate Affiliate Network Outstanding National Chapter Award.
April 04, 2013

Northeastern’s Biochemistry Club Wins National Award

Congratulations to the Northeastern University Biochemistry Club for receiving the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Undergraduate Affiliate Network Outstanding National Chapter Award.
April 04, 2013

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