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Ziyang Zhang receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Among the 40 awardees was Ziyang Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. His project focuses on targeting specific proteins called MHC that play a key role in how our immune system works. His lab's research is exploring ways to target these proteins directly to develop new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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Ashok Gadgil Wins Bayh-Dole Coalition’s Innovation Award in Washinton D.C.
“The award winners represent thousands of others who labor every day in our universities, federal laboratories and most importantly, the private sector, turning federally funded inventions into products which better the human condition.”
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Bakar Fellow James Hurley Wins Spark NS Award to Fight Parkinson’s Disease
Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology & Molecular Therapeutics James Hurley was one of five principal investigators nationwide selected for the 2024 SPARK NS Parkinson’s Disease Translational Research Program.
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Bakar Fellow Laura Waller Awarded Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Outstanding Achievements in Computational Microscopy
Laura Waller, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, uses algorithms – some of which are based on machine learning – to improve microscopy, particularly of biological samples, as well as the imaging of astronomical objects.
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Markita Landry Among the Winners of 2024 Blavatnik National Awards For Young Scientists
Landry has applied new nanobiotechnology towards a wide range of tasks, from measuring the transfer of chemicals between synapses in the brain to bioengineering plant genetics. Landry’s strategies for applying nanobiotechnology tools are already paving the way for more resilient crops and new treatments for neurological disease ranging from neurodegeneration to autism spectrum disorders.
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Messersmith’s Research Published in Science: New recyclable adhesives can be easily adapted for medical, consumer and industrial applications
Among the co-authors were Innovation Fellow Jisoo Shin and Bakar Ignite Scholar Katelyn Dale.
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Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds
Bakar Fellow Rikky Muller is developing earbuds that detect brain waves in the same way as an electroencephalogram (EEG), a test that doctors use to measure electrical activity in the brain. While most EEGs detect brain waves using a series of electrodes attached to the head, the earbuds do so using built-in electrodes that are designed to make contact with the ear canal.
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