Congratulations to Thibault Colombani and team (Loek Eggermont, Zachary Rogers, Lindsay G. A. McKay, Laura E. Avena, Rebecca I. Johnson, Nadia Storm, Anthony Griffiths, and Prof. Sidi Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting the design of immunomodulatory oxygen-generating… Read More

Aisha Svihla, BS/MS student in Bioengineering, recently received the PEAK Experiences Summit Award for her project entitled, “Oxygen-controlling cell culture (OCC) Systems”. The Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships grants this award to individuals who have demonstrated a… Read More

Hannah Boyce, chemical engineering undergraduate, was recently awarded Northeastern’s Huntington 100, an award that recognizes students that embody the mission, ideals and values of Northeastern. In addition, Elizabeth (Liz) Fink, chemical engineering undergraduate, was recently accepted into MIT’s… Read More

Thibault Colombani, Zachary Rogers, Loek Eggermont and Sidi Bencherif recently published a review article in Emergent Materials that highlights the roles that biomaterials play in developing COVID-19 therapeutic strategies. These include developing drug screening models, antiviral therapies, delivery… Read More

Lauren recently received the PEAK Experiences Summit Research Award for her project entitled, “Development of a Gene Therapy Platform for Treatment of Normocytic Normochromic Anemia.” The Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships grants this award to individuals who… Read More

Congrats to Prof. Bencherif for being named as one of the 2021 Rising Stars by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). In recognition of his achievement, Bencherif was… Read More

Zach Rogers, PhD student, was recently awarded the Alpha Fund Prototype Grant for his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels for two-dimensional cell culture”. The Alpha Fund, which is sponsored by both Northeastern’s venture accelerator IDEA and the Center for Research… Read More

Dr. Loek Eggermont, postdoctoral associate in the Bencherif Lab, recently gave a talk titled, ” Boosting Regulatory T-cell Induction with Immunoinstructive Cryogel Scaffolds” at the 2020 Immune Modulation and Engineering Symposium organized by Drexel University. Loek was awarded… Read More

Congratulations to Prof. Bencherif who was named as one of the 2021 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators. This nomination recognizes the very best work from biomaterials scientists in the early stages of their independent careers. Read more:Emerging Investigators 2021News… Read More

James was selected for the Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium organized by North Carolina State University.  James was invited to present his research on the use of Hypoxia-Inducing Cryogels for Preclinical Anticancer Drug Screening.   Congrats, James!… Read More