Research Wire

A study in Nature Cardiovascular Research by researchers at the School of Medicine explores a new, noninvasive imaging technique that helps scientists visualize immune cells in the human heart.

A team led by Lan Yang at the McKelvey School of Engineering developed a novel whispering-gallery-mode microprobe that optimizes detection of molecular fingerprints.

Physicist Mikhail Tikhonov, in Arts & Sciences, developed a new statistical model that could help design microbial communities for performing certain functions.

With a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Srikanth Singamaneni at the McKelvey School of Engineering will develop a method that combines a bright fluorescent nanoparticle with expansion microscopy to image secreted proteins with high sensitivity, precision and accuracy.

Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, has received a 2023 Avenir Award in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Nhial Tutlam at the Brown School, associate director for research at the International Center for Child Health and Development, won a research scientist career development award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Song Hu at the McKelvey School of Engineering plans to develop deep-brain fiber-optic techniques to investigate the cause of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor at the School of Medicine, and colleagues have received a $13 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project that will bring together experts from multiple disciplines across five research institutions to create better vaccines to fight against current and emerging coronaviruses. 

A team led by scientists and engineers, including researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering, has created a unique, record-setting material that can bend one infrared ray of light in two directions.

Jason Yi and Harrison Gabel, both at the School of Medicine, each have received two-year, $300,000 pilot grants from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The researchers will use the funds to investigate genetic diseases that result in autism.