“Traditional pathogen-based vaccines have numerous drawbacks that limit their benefits for treating cancer and chronic or preexisting infections. As COVID-19 demonstrated, mRNA vaccines avoid some of these drawbacks and can be very effective, but there is still much room for improvement,” – Dr. Guizhi (Julian) Zhu

“My professional path at Michigan has been a direct consequence of student, post-doc, and faculty collaborators who have made my work in the department, college, and university so fulfilling.” – Dr. Michael Solomon

As a part of a research group led by Dr. Aaron Morris, Dr. Lonnie Shea assists in identifying new therapeutics in models of primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). They hope to achieve this by delving deeper into the disease’s cellular mechanisms.

Dr. Steven Schwendeman, collaborated with several other researchers in order to discuss the feasibility of controlled nitric oxide generation.

Dr. Nicholas Kotov and Dr. Albert Liu receive $10,000 grant from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin) to fund the creation of immersive learning for students through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology.

Congratulations to Frankie Cannon on receiving the 2024 CoE Staff Incentive Award. This award strives to recognize staff who demonstrate the College’s vision, mission, and values to the utmost. Thank you so much to Frankie for upholding these values, and making Michigan Engineering such a great space.

As the Principal Investigator of the IceCylce Project, Dr. Anish Tuteja works with a team of researchers in the pursuit of helping redefine how the human body interact with extreme cold. They strive to learn new ways of controlling the freezing process.

Dr. Matthew Willsey led a study that found a brain-computer interface that allowed a participant with paralysis in all limbs to operate a virtual quadcopter with the power of thought.

Innovation Champions are selected in order to provide support for research commercialization throughout the University’s three campuses. We’re proud to congratulate Dr. Moon on his selection!

“These existing techniques usually involve methods that end up killing the cancer cells, thus preventing us from utilizing these cells for further investigation. We realized that we needed an alternative way to identify circulating tumor cells while they are alive.” – Dr. Sunitha Nagrath

“I’m thrilled to be presenting the Turnbull Lecture this year. The annual Fall MRS meeting is always a great opportunity to share and learn about the latest exciting developments in materials research.” – Dr. Sharon Glotzer

Dr. Nicholas Kotov, along with University of Vigo Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán and University of Antwerp Porf. Sara Bals, have been awarded €9M ($10M) by the European Research Council to develop nanoparticles that recognize proteins.

BI had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Romee, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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.