News & Events

Congratulations to Scott VanEpps who was recently elected as a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

The Biointerfaces Institute’s inaugural symposium on April 19 was a success with over 150 attendees. A microposter session was organized in conjunction with the Symposium by the Biointerfaces Institute Researcher Group, with 55 poster submissions. The winners of the microsposter session were:

First place: Cameron Louttit (Moon Group)
Second place: Aqila Ahmed (Keller Group)
Third Place: Yingying Zeng (Kim Group)

Congratulations!

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

Bill Stacey is the recipient of the 2017 Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award from the American Academy of Neurology. Congratulations Bill!

With possible uses on vehicles, clothing and numerous other surfaces, the self-healing, water-repellent coating from Anish Tuteja’s group is a major breakthrough in the field.

Quanta Magazine published an interview with Sharon Glotzer to discuss her work on emergence. Link to the article here.

As a 2017 recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, Tim Bruns research will focus on the behavior of neurons within the dorsal root ganglia.

Michael Solomon and Sharon Glotzer discuss their work on understanding and developing shape shifting particles.

Anish Tuteja develops a variety of surface coatings that could be used to repell liquid.

Icephobic coatings have been developed in Anish Tuteja’s lab and can be applied to a variety of surfaces.

Sunitha Nagrath discusses microfluidic devices developed in her lab to capture cancer cells and their promise to develop liquid biopsy approaches to diagnosing cancer.

The Kotov group describes their work on developing hedgehog particles and their potential applications in a variety of fields.

Jinsang Kim discusses his work on developing materials with “superplastic” characteristics.

The Tuteja lab has developed a new technique to create new complex-shaped nanoparticles.