News & Updates
KU Researchers developing quick turnaround COVID-19 Test
Steven Soper, a KU Foundation Distinguished Professor with appointments in both the School of Engineering and Department of Chemistry is leading an effort to develop a quick-turnaround COVID-19 test that can be used at home. Soper’s team, which includes a half-dozen graduate students in bioengineering and chemistry, is repurposing “lab on a chip” technology he had previously developed to give doctors simple tools to more easily and quickly diagnose conditions ranging from stroke to colon cancer.
Engineering professor receives major Department of Energy grants
Climate-conscious consumers often take steps to curb their emissions of greenhouse gases. For example, you might drive a hybrid car to reduce your use of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during combustion.
Members of New Mexico INBRE work together to provide the WHO hand sanitizer, face shields and face masks to Native Communities in the state
During this challenging time, it is more critical than ever to come together to help those most in need. Some of our recognized network members teamed up to distribute face masks and hand sanitizers to the needing New Mexico Native Communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This remarkable initiative started with New Mexico Tech and former INBRE student, Dr. Danielle Turner when she saw the recipe for the WHO Hand Sanitizer online and mentioned it to our NM-INBRE liaison at Tech, Dr. Snezna Rogelj.
Bartelt-Hunt searching sewage for COVID-19
Every Thursday morning, before most of campus is awake, University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and a small team of graduate students and building systems personnel can be found at various campus sites, lifting manhole covers and collecting sewage samples.
Telehealth, in-person COVID-19 scenarios help train future healthcare professionals
Despite the textbooks, lectures and study sessions, future health professionals can face many unknowns during their first interactions with patients. Will they ask the right questions? Will they know the right answers? How will they connect with their patients?
Tips for families resuming speech services at school during distance learning
Education continues to look different for most students — and that especially includes those pupils with disabilities who receive support services like speech therapy through their schools.
Research funding for WVU hits all-time high at $195 million this past year
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing uncertainties in the higher education world, West Virginia University received $195 million in external funding for research and other sponsored programs this past fiscal year.
Kansas State University researchers study how to protect meat packing plants from coronavirus
Researchers at Kansas State University were given a $1 million grant to find out how to protect workers at meat packing plants from the coronavirus.
Alaska INBRE IV One Health supports COVID-19 research
Alaska INBRE, supported by grant number P20GM103395 from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Alaska, has committed $101,700 funding to date for COVID-19 research.
Two South Carolina Researchers receive NIH Collaboration Award
The South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) is pleased to announce that a team of South Carolina biomedical researchers has received a National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) P20 collaboration award. This goal of this one-year funding opportunity is to encourage collaborations between NIGMS Institutional Development Award (IDeA) programs investigators while providing students a broad continuum of research opportunities. The team of Dr. Srikripa Chandrasekaran from Furman University and Dr. Lukasz Kozubowski from Clemson University were awarded $147,340 for their project entitled, “SC INBRE Collaborative Administrative Supplement – Role of Hsp90 in Resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans to Fluconazole.” Dr. Chandrasekaran is a current recipient of an SC INBRE Developmental Research Project Program award; Dr. Kozubowski is a member of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center.