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- Inscripta, a digital genome engineering company spun out of CU 麻豆影院 research, has just raised another $125 million in a Series D financing on the heels of launching its revolutionary product, The Onyx鈩. Inscripta is having a record funding year, also closing on $105 million in financing in late 2018 and early 2019. The company has raised $259.6 million in total and these new funds will help accelerate the expansion and commercialization of The Onyx鈩 .
- Three undergraduates and one doctoral student from Professor Al Weimer鈥檚 research group earned poster awards this month at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
- Leading up to the award, he was the first student in his major to study abroad in back-to-back semesters in two different countries: New Zealand and Singapore.
- Graduates of the College of Engineering and Applied Science met in Houston to reconnect and hear from Professor Emeritus David Clough.
- Fifth-year chemical and biological PhD candidate Leila Saleh works at the crossroads of immunology and engineering in the Bryant Research Group. During her time at CU 麻豆影院, she has worked with professors Stephanie Bryant, Kristi Anseth and Jenifer Cha in various capacities 鈥 giving her a great chance to see how all three balance research and teaching, and shaping her post-graduation plans.
- New research adapting facial recognition technology may help identify and treat pathogens in minutes rather than days.
- New research from Professor Robert Garcea of the BioFrontiers Institute and Gillespie Professor Theodore Randolph of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is showing encouraging results in stabilizing vaccines and circumventing the refrigeration requirement, earning an additional $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- A new paper in Nature Energy addresses stability challenges in stacked perovskite solar cells.
- Heinz is leading two research projects that received NSF grants in September.
- Over the past year, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CU 麻豆影院 has recruited a combination of established and up-and-coming faculty, bringing both experience and fresh perspectives to key research areas.