Thanks to a generous grant from the DeFeo Family Foundation, five outstanding Northwestern undergraduate students were selected to be the first recipients of the DeFeo Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award. … Continued
Yogesh Goyal, PhD, assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar in Cancer Research.
New study helps disentangle microbes’ role in global carbon cycle.
The CSB Biofoundry, a new resource launched by Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology, welcomed researchers and startups to its first Open House last week. The facility, located at 1801 Maple … Continued
Neha Kamat and her team uncovers how differences in the thickness of biological membranes can impact a protein’s ability to insert and move within membranes.
For Laura Hertz, a fifth-year graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, the opportunity to work in the lab of Julius Lucks, co-director of the Center for Synthetic Biology, … Continued
Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) is pleased to announce George Peter Magoola as the inaugural recipient of the Center’s new Research Experience for Africans (SynBrREA) Fellowship. The pilot … Continued
One of the most exciting areas of innovation in the biotech sector in recent years has been the development of novel gene-delivery vehicles used in cell- and gene-based therapies. However, … Continued
Interdisciplinary research lies at the heart of Northwestern University’s research ethos. At the Center for Synthetic Biology, a deliberate effort to foster collaboration between various disciplines has led to the … Continued
Pearl Bio was spun out of research from Farren Isaacs, Ph.D., and Michael Jewett, Ph.D., that centers on using ”genomically recoded organisms” to add synthetic chemistry to biologics.
