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Human Health

Michigan EngineeringMarch 17, 2023

Student-led initiative tests a solar-powered refrigerator in rural communities

Creating a sustainable solution to increase vaccine accessibility.

Michigan EngineeringMarch 15, 2023

For the first time, controlling the degree of twist in nanostructure particles

Being able to decide not only whether a micron-scale particle twists but also how much could open new avenues for machine vision and more.

Michigan EngineeringFebruary 16, 2023

Jouha Min receives V Scholar Grant for Cancer Research

The funding will support advanced treatment prediction and tracking tools for pediatric glioma.

Taylor ShafferFebruary 14, 2023

Lola Eniola-Adefeso named National Academy of Inventors Senior Member

NAI Senior Members are rising stars who foster a spirit of innovation while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.

Michigan EngineeringAugust 18, 2022

A transformational experience — Malini Mukherji

One of chemical engineering’s newest alumni and recent NSF-GRFP recipient, Malini Mukherji, had a transformational experience at U-M through learning, research and leading the ChE honor society.

Michigan EngineeringJuly 13, 2022

Lola Eniola-Adefeso and international team receive $7.5M for cardiovascular disease research

U-M ChE professor, Lola Eniola-Adefeso, is part of an international research team that recently received $7.5 million from the Leducq Foundation for their AntheroGEN project focused on sex-specific mechanisms of cardiovascular disease.

Michigan EngineeringJuly 5, 2022

Durante Pioche-Lee receives Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

U-M ChE PhD student Durante Pioche-Lee has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine which is granted annually to individuals demonstrating superior scholarship and commitment to teaching and research.

Michigan EngineeringJune 15, 2022

$2.38M to test nano-engineered brain cancer treatment in mice

A protein that crosses the blood-brain barrier carries a drug that kills tumor cells and another that activates the immune system.

Michigan EngineeringMay 16, 2022

Nanobiotics: model predicts how nanoparticles interact with proteins

Nano-engineered drugs that stop harmful bacteria and viruses could be on the horizon.

Michigan EngineeringMarch 21, 2022

Twisted vibrations enable quality control for chiral drugs and supplements

Terahertz light creates twisting vibrations in biomolecules such as proteins, confirming whether their compositions and structures are safe and effective.

Michigan EngineeringMarch 15, 2022

An all-female thesis defense committee

A PhD student and four faculty members reflect on the role gender has played in their lives as engineers—and the progress the field has made.

Michigan EngineeringFebruary 28, 2022

Joerg Lahann receives funding to improve cancer-fighting technologies

U-M ChE’s Joerg Lahann, the Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received funding for a joint industry-academic cancer research project with Gradalis. The research focuses on finding methods to utilize a patient’s cancer cells to create personalized therapeutics to treat cancer.

Michigan EngineeringFebruary 10, 2022

New physics-based computation and AI framework at U-M explores aggressive behavior of cancer cells

A team of interdisciplinary U-M researchers, backed by a $1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant, has developed a high-risk, high-reward approach to understand how each cell in a population processes information and translates that to action driving cancer cell progression.

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