Biomedical Engineering Professor Donald Gaver was awarded $2,999,115 from the NSF to create an interdisciplinary PhD program in Bioinnovation. This 5-year project will support 26 PhD students, and will cultivate their abilities to develop clinically relevant biomedical technologies and devices leading to commercial products. This program couples research with entrepreneurship to develop graduates who can lead the creation of innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex biomedical problems.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Vijay John was awarded $367,598 from the NSF to develop a class of nanoparticles that are hollow, lightweight and magnetically responsive, and can be developed into novel sensors and energy related materials.

Chemistry Professor Joel Mague was awarded $249,200 from the NSF for the purchase of a new X-Ray diffractometer which will expand the capabilities of the Tulane Crystallography Laboratory to handle samples an order of magnitude smaller than is currently possible. The Laboratory, which is directed by Professor Mague, determines the structures of new chemical molecules.

Computer Science Associate Professor Ramgopal Mettu was awarded $123, 323 from the NSF to continue work on developing algorithms for problems in computational structural biology. In particular, Professor Mettu is developing methods to effectively combine experimental and modeling data for problems such as protein structure prediction, protein-protein interactions and compound screening.

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Professor Kim O’Connor will be receiving the American Chemical Society’s Gaden Award for an outstanding paper published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering in the last year.

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