Professor Stephanie Bryant speaking in a video about the project.

Joints that could heal themselves? Researchers could get there in five years

March 26, 2024

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) granted $39 million to a CU Boulder-led team, including Professor Stephanie J. Bryant of chemical and biological engineering, to pioneer a single-shot joint treatment, that would stop cartilage and bone from erosion and promote regrowth.

Jerome Fox

Jerome Fox elevated to senior member of prestigious National Academy of Inventors

March 25, 2024

Jerome Fox, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fox's research focuses on engineering microbes for drug discovery. He founded Think Bioscience, a company developing medicines for conditions like Rett Syndrome and cancer.

Michael Mcgehee

Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells

March 22, 2024

In a new paper published February 26 in the journal Nature Energy, Michael McGehee, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and his international collaborators unveiled an innovative method to manufacture the new solar cells, known as perovskite cells, an achievement critical for the commercialization of what many consider the next generation of solar technology.

Kaustav Bera with the mountains blurred in the background

CU Boulder postdoc earns biomedical fellowship for intestine research

March 13, 2024

Kaustav Bera, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. The highly prestigious and very selective fellowship—less than 5 percent of applications are awarded—will support Bera’s postdoctoral training in studying the body’s maintenance of the gut epithelium, the inner lining of the gastrointestinal tract.

Hendrik Heinz

Hendrik Heinz Awarded IAAM Scientist Medal Award

March 12, 2024

Hendrik Heinz, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded an International Association for Advanced Materials (IAAM), Scientist Medal in recognition of his contributions to advanced materials, engineering and technology.

Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind

CU Boulder researchers tackle HIV-related cognitive decline

March 5, 2024

Assistant Professors Kayla Sprenger and Laurel Hind, of CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, are on a collaborative mission to explore solutions for mitigating cognitive decline in individuals living with HIV. This decline can be caused by both the virus itself and the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat it.

Thad Sauvain

Thad Sauvain: 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Feb. 19, 2024

Sanjeev G. Redkar

Sanjeev G. Redkar: 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient

Feb. 19, 2024

The Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards (DEAA) honor graduates and friends who have distinguished themselves through outstanding personal qualities, knowledge and significant contributions to their fields.

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VitriVax, spinoff of Ted Randolph's lab, receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $5 million grant

Feb. 1, 2024

The grant will help the company to further develop its proprietary single shot, thermostabilization vaccine technology, called Atomic Layering Thermostable Antigen and Adjuvant, or ALTA, and begin the development of pilot-scale manufacturing capacity, the company said in a press statement.

Arkava Ganguly on balcony on CU Boulder campus.

PhD student wins prestigious Teets fellowship

Jan. 9, 2024

Arkava Ganguly , a third-year PhD student in the Gupta research group, also known as the Laboratory of Interface, Flow and Electrokinetics (LIFE), has been honored with the prestigious 2024 Teets Family Endowed Doctoral Fellowship. This highly sought-after fellowship, providing $15,000 over a two-year period, is intended to support students...

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