News & Events

Maria Fawaz and Minzhi Yu, both graduate students in Anna Schwendeman’s group, have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association.

An article from the Lahann lab was recently published in Science. The article is entitled “Templated nanofiber synthesis via chemical vapor polymerization into liquid crystalline films” and reports on nanofiber arrays that can lead to various functional coatings.

Ron Larson is honored with the 2019 Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.

Recent publications from BI Research Groups

Sharon Glotzer is the 2019 recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics. The award granted by the American Physical Society with support from IBM recognizes outstanding work and disseminating information in computational physics.

The Biointerfaces Institute seeks nominations for its inaugural round of BI Innovator Awards.

The goal of the Innovator Award is to recognize faculty, graduate student and postdoctoral researchers who are active contributors to the interdisciplinary research, innovation and translational ecosystem at BI.

Sunitha Nagrath is the recipient of the 2018 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award. The award honors the contributions of an individual who has demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of microfluidics or nanofluidics in his or her early career.

The article entitled “Profiling Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) Populations in Pancreatic Cancer Using a Serial Microfluidic CTC Carpet Chip” appears in Advanced Biosystems.

This award recognizes scientists and pharmaceutical professionals who are early in their careers, who have made a significant impact in the pharmaceutical sciences that promotes public health.

Abhinav Achreja, a postdoctoral fellow in Deepak Nagrath’s lab, was awarded a Precision Health Scholar Award.

The Henry Russel Lectureship is awarded annually to a faculty member with exceptional achievements in research, scholarship or creative endeavors, as well as an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring and service.

BI Faculty member and Chemical Engineering Professor Mike Solomon will serve as the next dean of Rackham Graduate School and vice provost for academic affairs-graduate studies.

The Stacey and Chestek labs report on their collaborative research on investigating high frequency oscillations (HFOs) as potential new biomarker candidates for epilepsy.

Cindy Chestek (Biomedical Engineering), James Moon (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and A. Schwendeman (Pharmaceutical Sciences) were promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!

Peter Tessier was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE comprises of leaders in medical and biological engineering, consisting of academic, industrial, professional society councils and elected fellows.