In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for his project titled “Patterning at Nano‐Length Scales by Directed Assembly.”
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The multimillion-dollar contract with Wellcome Leap will help create “on-demand” manufacturing technology that can produce a range of RNA-based vaccines. The two-pronged project will use a design method that creates a barcode library of novel lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with custom features, while the other will develop microfluidic chips for the precise manufacturing of these RNA-based therapies.
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The Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering conducts research at the interface of biomaterials science, drug delivery, and cellular and molecular bioengineering to fundamentally understand and therapeutically target biological barriers. He is recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his development of the first nanoparticle RNAi therapy to treat multiple myeloma, an incurable hematologic cancer that colonizes in bone marrow.
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The Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Penn Engineers have developed a new technology which simultaneously provides information in four dimensions of T cell profiling. This technology, called TetTCR-SeqHD, is the first to provide detailed information about single T cells in a high-throughput manner, opening doors for personalized immune diagnostics and immunotherapy development.
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Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, author, and former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank is this year’s recipient of the Carnot Prize, awarded by Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
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Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine have now shown how to computationally optimize the design of lipid nanoparticles to accurately target cell delivery.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research lies at the intersection of solid-state opto-electronics and emerging low-dimensional materials, is being honored “for breakthrough advances in optical characterization and understanding of light-matter coupling in excitonic and strongly-correlated semiconductors.”
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The Stephen J. Angello Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials conducts research into the chemical and physical properties of nanostructured materials, and integrating materials with optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and thermal properties to create multifunctional devices.
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Penn Health-Tech’s Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize awards $80,000 to support early-stage ideas joining engineering and medicine. This year, the NEMO Prize has been awarded to a team of researchers from Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, with a project that aims to develop a technology that can detect multiple cancer biomarkers in single cells from tumor biopsy samples.
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