Research Wire

A $1.5 million NIH grant will support J. Mark Meecham’s development of microfluidic technology to separate cells and molecules from other microscopic particles, such as in blood.

Physicists Zohar Nussinov and Alexander Seidel, both in Arts & Sciences, received a $224,287 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work on imaging goggles for fluorescence-guided surgery.

Researchers in Jianmin Cui’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering have looked at drug interactions and mechanisms behind a group of proteins to potentially develop a new strategy to treat epilepsy.

Timothy Holy, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, has received $2.1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fill in the gaps in knowledge about pheromone signaling.

Scott VanBommel, a senior scientist in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, received $284,827 in funding from NASA.

Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering has received a $355,630 grant from the National Science Foundation to study safer batteries.

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $599,784 grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research project on topological qubits.

Willem Dickhoff in Arts & Sciences won a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on “Green’s functions and the nuclear many-body problem.”

Arts & Sciences’ new internal grant program, “Seeding Projects for Enabling Excellence & Distinction” (SPEED), aims to spur novel and impactful research, scholarship and creative practice initiatives. Leaders have chosen the first cohort of grant winners.

Abhinav Jha and his collaborators have developed a way to measure the distribution of dangerous radiation associated with cancer treatments.