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Reopen and regenerate: Exosome-coated stent heals vascular injury, repairs damaged tissue

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A portrait photograph of Nathan Crook taken in front of shelves with lab equipment.

Mar 29, 2024

Tiny organisms, transformative outcomes

Nathan Crook, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is discovering how Earth’s simplest life forms might unlock solutions to complex problems like antibiotic-resistant infections, plastic pollution and climate change. 

Dec 12, 2023

MSE startup Helixomer receives $2M NIH grant to advance breakthrough anticoagulant and reversal agent

Helixomer Inc., a cutting-edge drug development company co-founded by Professor Thom LaBean in 2020, has recently been honored with a $2 million Direct-to-Phase-2 SBIR grant… 
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Dec 11, 2023

NC State researcher receives ‘high-risk, high reward’ NIH funding 

Nathan Crook and his research team have been granted more than $1.3M from the National Institutes of Health to study whether a certain strain of yeast can help catalyze drug discovery. 
Bell Tower in the spring

Oct 23, 2023

Muller and team awarded $2.9 million NIH grant

Associate professor Dr. Marie Muller will serve as principal investigator for the project, titled “Quantitative Assessment of Angiogenesis using Ultrasound Multiple Scattering." She and her team look to propose real-time quantitative assessment of angiogenesis based on Ultrasound Multiple Scattering (USMS) analysis from raw ultrasound data.  

Sep 21, 2023

CBE professors Rao and Keung receive $1.3M NIH research grant

The project, “Scalable platforms for understudied histone modifications and modifiers” is designed to push the boundaries of biology and bioengineering in both its experimental scale and its exploration of the biochemistry associated with the chemical and structural modifications of proteins that reside within every cell. 
Photo of bare feet walking on top of circular diagrams.

Oct 3, 2022

BME’s Franz awarded $2.7M NIH grant to enhance foot and ankle function in older adults

Jason Franz, Associate Professor in Joint BME, has received a 5-year, $2.7M R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health titled “A framework for feasible translation to enhance foot and ankle function in aging and mobility”. 
Olivia Dioli, an undergraduate researcher in the Muddiman group, is shown here carrying out experiments involving the development of a system suitability strategy for mass spectrometry imaging.

Aug 4, 2022

The power of mass spectrometry imaging

This 4-year $2.2 million NIH grant was recently awarded to support a collaborative effort initiated by the College of Sciences, College of Engineering, and METRIC at NC State and the College of Engineering at Duke University. 
Closeup of hand with flexible circuit around the index finger.

Oct 28, 2021

ASSIST Center looks to a self-sufficient future

Nine years in, the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) has continued to lead the way in developing flexible, self-powering and wearable devices that will help both physicians and patients in monitoring human health across fields. 
Color illustration of an exosome-coated stent in a cutaway of an artery.

Oct 28, 2021

Reopen and regenerate: Exosome-coated stent heals vascular injury, repairs damaged tissue

Researchers from NC State have developed an exosome-coated stent with a “smart-release” trigger that could both prevent reopened blood vessels from narrowing and deliver regenerative stem cell-derived therapy to blood-starved, or ischemic, tissue.