Category: Human Health
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Jouha Min receives NSF CAREER Award
Min recognized for promising research exploring how the surface patterns of biomaterials affect immune cells and bacteria to help create infection-resistant medical implants.
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Michigan Chemical Engineering Faculty Propel Innovation in Microgel Production through Unique 3-Day Challenge
A hackathon style collaboration leads to compelling innovation in microgels
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A simpler way to make microgels for programmable drug release
Dunking a calcium alginate microgel in ion baths helps finely tune drug release profiles without complex equipment, opening up microgel synthesis to more researchers.
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Accelerating innovation with machine learning
Chemical Engineering faculty and students are using machine learning to open up new possibilities in research.
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Thousands of tiny, time-aware sensors collectively map chemical concentrations within narrow tubes
A new framework optimizes a system of sensors that remember when they collided with a target chemical while flowing through hard-to-reach areas
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Jouha Min receives NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for 3D nanoscale topography research
The $1.86M in funding will drive advancements in understanding how 3D nanoscale topographies influence biological interactions.
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Bradley Biggs to join Michigan Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor
Bradley Biggs will join the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor this January.
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Precision health and advanced communications: €9M ($10M) for bio-inspired nanoparticles on demand
Advanced microscopy techniques and AI models will help design complex nanoparticles for specific biological targets with less trial and error.
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Faster, more sensitive lung cancer detection from a blood draw
Capturing nanoscale ‘packages’ that cancer cells send out, twisting gold nanoparticles use light to distinguish healthy patients from lung cancer patients.
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Sundaresh Brahmasandra recognized as 2024 Alumni Merit Award recipient
Brahmasandra (PhD ‘01), a leader in diagnostics and molecular innovation, has been selected as the Michigan Chemical Engineering Alumni Merit Award recipient.
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Tick-borne red meat allergy prevented in mice through new nanoparticle treatment
New approach could offer those with food allergies another option besides avoidance.
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Could a dietary fiber supplement offer long-awaited treatment for food allergy sufferers?
A study led by James Moon has identified a potential new treatment for food allergies in inulin, a naturally occurring plant fiber commonly used as a supplement, a prebiotic in soda, a replacement for sweeteners and for other products and purposes.
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$10.5M biomaterials center to connect researchers, fund innovation and fight resource discrimination
Building on a network of biomaterials researchers and the success of a seed grant effort, U-M and UW lead a new NIH-funded center.
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ACS funding supports research for recyclable, durable electrodes
The research led by Xiwen Gong aims to develop more stable, recyclable plastic electrodes for flexible and wearable electronics.
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Nanoparticles reprogram mouse immune systems to cope with allergens
Treatment suppressed anaphylaxis and reduced gut inflammation after just two intravenous infusions.
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Crinkled coatings could prevent medical implants from failing
New bone cells and inflammation-reducing cells grab onto microscopic grooves in the coatings, stretching in ways that promote tissue healing.
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Targeting multiple COVID variants through the twist in the spike protein
Particles that gum up the keys that the virus uses to enter cells could one day be an effective COVID treatment whenever vaccines and other treatments fall short
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A simple, scalable method using light to 3D print helical nanostructures
New process can accelerate the production of complex materials needed to advance photonics technologies
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A simple and robust experimental process for protein engineering
Easily interpretable technique can reduce the cost and increase the scale of protein optimization for applications in medicine, biofuels and more.
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Is lung cancer treatment working? This chip can tell from a blood draw
By trapping and concentrating tiny numbers of cancer cells from blood samples, the device can identify whether a treatment is effective at the four-week mark.