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Drug discovery symposium maps new frontiers, collaborations
More than 300 students, faculty and industry researchers from more than 80 institutions convened at Northeastern University on Tuesday for a daylong symposium on the future of drug discovery and...
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3Qs: A new way to battle HIV
More than 35 million people around the world now live with HIV/AIDS. While drug discovery efforts to combat the disease have been successful, multiple treatments are required because the virus mutates...
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Cancer research co-op points to exciting career path
When Mark Naniong, S’14, began his co-op at the Boston-based Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Sciences at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute last spring, becoming a scientist wasn’t on his radar. But his...
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Career advice for future biotech leaders
When the next career milestone for Christine Cournoyer was to become CIO of IBM’s software group, she realized that she wasn’t excited about the company’s mission. “And that’s when I realized I...
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An off-switch for drugs’ toxic side effects
When medications linger in the human body, they sometimes produce toxic side effects. Professor Alexandros Makriyannis, the George D. Behrakis Trustee Chair in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Director...
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New research offers hope in treating sleeping sickness
In early drug discovery, you need a starting point, says Northeastern University associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Michael Pollastri. In a new research paper published Thursday in...
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New grant to advance sleeping sickness treatment research
In October, we wrote about associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Michael Pollastri’s new research that presented hundreds of promising starting points to treat Human African...
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Groundbreaking Northeastern research sweeps the globe
Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Kim Lewis and his team’s pioneering research presenting a new antibiotic that kills pathogens without encountering any detectable resistance has captured...
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Graduate researcher wins fellowship to design drugs to combat deadly disease
When Northeastern graduate student Dana Klug learned, in mid-July, that she had won a prestigious predoctoral fellowship from the American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry, she did what...
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Drug discovery and delivery research at Northeastern’s pharmacy school spurs...
Throughout Northeastern’s School of Pharmacy, researchers are making progress in solving a range of pressing health challenges. This research is taking place in both of the schools’ departments: the...
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Northeastern receives $9M grant to fast track the discovery of new antibiotics
In September 2014, President Obama issued an executive order for “Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.” Why the urgency? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the order noted, “estimates...
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Using biology to engineer better therapeutics
There is nothing homogenous about the human body, says new chemical engineering professor Debra Auguste. That’s why her research into creating biomaterials that improve medical therapies and drug...
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Advancing Northeastern’s leadership in drug discovery
Diomedes Logothetis, the new chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy, has a vision: To advance Northeastern’s standing as a go-to institution for academic...
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New professor uses 3-D bioprinting to explore vascular disease
Nowadays, 3-D printed objects are ubiquitous, from toys to office supplies to coffee mugs. But new Northeastern faculty member Guohao Dai is pioneering this technology to bring bioengineering...
View ArticleBiology researcher named academy fellow
Kim Lewis, professor of biology and director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology for his body of research on...
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Researcher develops technology to advance antibiotic discovery
The period from 1950 to 1960 has been called “the golden age of antibiotic discovery,” as half the antibiotics we use today were discovered during that time. Researchers found the new drugs by...
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How one Northeastern spinoff is using origami to speed up drug development
To Northeastern engineering professor Carol Livermore, origami is more than just beautiful art—it’s a platform to create life-saving innovations in science and medicine. Since 2015, a research team...
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