Category: Award

Congratulations to Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Sharon Glotzer, on being awarded the 2025 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics for demonstrating the critical role of shape entropy in colloidal assembly.

We are pleased to announce that EI Therapeutics (a startup spun out of BI) has been named the Runner Up for the Audience Choice Award at the Nucleate Midwest Showcase 2024! Congratulations to Priyan Weerappuli (BI postdoc) and Sam Currier (UM MBA student)!

This award is presented to those faculty that showed significant contributions and leadership in fields ranging from firearm injury prevention and multi-scale computation to Earth remote sensing and molecular imaging. Dr. Luker’s work focuses on the discovery of how cell surface receptors for chemokines and growth factors regulate breast cancer metastasis, and how they are regulated by the tumor microenvironment and metabolic environment.

We recently assembled a team of 6 labs from the US, Australia, and France to develop a method of probing the brain to assess seizure risk in real time. We will test our method using advanced data analysis, four types of computational modeling, four animal models, and a pilot human study. The results would pioneer a new method of testing whether seizure treatments work without waiting for seizures to occur, allowing efficient treatment optimization. We named our project PREMONITION: PREictal MONitoring of seIzure risk for Treatment optimizatION”

“We recently assembled a team of 6 labs from the US, Australia, and France to develop a method of probing the brain to assess seizure risk in real time. We will test our method using advanced data analysis, four animal models, and a pilot human study. The results would pionner a new method of testing whether seizure treatments work wihtout waiting for seizures to occur, allowing efficient treatment optimization. We named our project PREMONITION: PREictal MONitoring of seIzure risk for Treatment optimizatION” – William Stacey

“Our team developed a non-viral gene delivery platform that is free from immune response. This platform will allow us to advance the gene therapy path for xerostomia. Through the Frankel Innovation Initiative program, we aim to finalize preclinical studies to enable our FDA IND filing to support a first-in-human trial.” – Isabelle Lombaert

Yesterday, BI hosted our annual research day. It was a day of sharing knowledge and connecting with collaborators and colleagues to accelerate future research efforts.

Yesterday, BI hosted tours of our lab spaces to attendees of the MWACD conference.

About MWACD: The Midwest Association of Core Directors (MWACD) is a chapter of the international Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF).

“This is amazing! It was an ordinary Thursday – then a humbling celebration. I cannot deny, 2022 was a good year and many people in this department helped to make it happen.”

– Dr. Nicholas Kotov

Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Joerg Lahann, has been honored as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. The AAAS fellowship is one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.