Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering

Stevens Professor Joins Open Source Effort to Develop Drugs

March 14, 2013

International collaboration helps developing nations fight malaria and tuberculosis. In order to accelerate the development of new drugs to combat and cure major infectious diseases, Professor A.K. Ganguly of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology is contributing his expertise and passion to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Open Source Drug Discovery initiative. Dr. Ganguly is focusing on new treatments for malaria and tuberculosis, which are causing millions of deaths while several drugs used to cure these diseases no longer work because of the appearance of resistant strains. “Malaria and tuberculosis are [Read more...]

Stevens Undergraduates Present Research on Reducing Back Pain

January 22, 2013

Students to exhibit posters and results at two annual conferences Lower back pain is the second most common cause of disability for adults in the United States. Faced with the rising number of individuals suffering from the condition, undergraduate students Emily Noonan and Hanna Sidoti at the Stevens Institute of Technology will be presenting their research on the effects of whole-body vibration on lower back pain at two major conferences in 2013. “Emily and Hanna demonstrate how Stevens undergraduate students are conducting substantive research that strives for genuine societal impact,” says Dr. Michael Bruno, Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of [Read more...]

Glavy receives Distinguished Teaching Award

September 5, 2012

Dr. Joseph Glavy received the Harvey N. Davis, Assistant Professor Distinguished Teaching Award at convocation. Congratulations! [Read more...]

Stevens Researcher Wins Prestigious NSF Special Creativity Award

August 14, 2012

Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili honored for innovative work on multilayer polymer films leading to next-generation coatings of prosthetic implants and medical devices Polymer coatings are used in common everyday products, from window tinting to prosthetics. Scientists are developing a new generation of multilayer coatings that greatly expand their potential. Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili, professor of chemistry and co-director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program at Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) the illustrious Special Creativity Award to continue her cutting-edge research on multilayer polymer films, titled “Chain Dynamics and Layering within Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films.” Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili “We are [Read more...]

Stevens Researchers Advance Innovative Lab-in-a-Fiber Research Frontier

May 21, 2012

Dr. Du and Dr. Sukhishvili’s collaboration wins grant from the National Science Foundation Many vital chemical and biological processes in modern technology take place in microscopic, tightly constrained environments, where experimentation at macroscopic scale is no longer adequate to understand and exploit molecular behavior. Dr. Henry Du and Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili of Stevens Institute of Technology have recently been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to address this challenge with a project titled Lab-in-a-Fiber Optofluidic Platform: In-Situ Assembly and Response of Layer-by-Layer Polyelectrolyte Films in Confined Geometry. “We applaud the efforts of Profs. Sukhishvili and Du," says Dr. Michael Bruno, Dean of [Read more...]

Explosive Detection Research to be Presented at ASMS Conference

May 8, 2012

Stevens student awarded travel grant to present research in Vancouver The detection of trace quantities of explosives is critical to defending civilian populations from terrorist attacks. Freneil Jariwala, graduate student at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Dr. Athula B. Attygalle of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering have developed a method of modifying a commercial electrospray ionization source for ambient detection of explosives on surfaces. At the ASMS regional meeting of April 17th, 2012, Dr. Ron Kong, Chair of the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society, awarded Freneil a grant to present the results of his [Read more...]

Stevens Team Wins First Place in New Jersey ISPE Student Poster competition

May 8, 2012

Diagnostic invention allows clinicians to comprehensively evaluate spinal movement A student team from Stevens Institute of Technology has taken first place in the undergraduate division of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) 2012 New Jersey Regional Poster Competition. The ISPE conducts the annual competition between student members of the society, who present visual displays of their research findings and answer questions from a panel of distinguished judges. The winning teams in the regional competitions take their posters to the ISPE Annual Meeting and compete with other teams from all over the world. Justyna Zielinska presented a poster "Tri-axial Electro-goniometer For Spinal Motion" [Read more...]

Dr. Glenn Atlas, Stevens Students, and MICRO Stamping Corp. Develop Innovative Medical Technology

April 30, 2012

V-Scope is a new medical device to help doctors position a breathing tube “The proper intubation of a patient must be performed quickly, often in life-threatening situations,” says Dr. Glenn Atlas, Stevens Institute of Technology Alumnus and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey. By inserting a flexible tube into the trachea, a doctor or nurse maintains an open airway for patients who are critically injured or unable to breathe as an effect of being under anesthesia. The Stevens senior design team of Muhammad Abdul Rahman, Chika Ekweghariri, Cailin Grunewald, and Tarik Kramcha responded [Read more...]

New NSF Grant Supports Dr. Attygalle's Investigation on Ant Pheromones

October 13, 2011

Dr. Attygalle provides new insight into how certain parasites locate host ants Ants communicate using chemical signals, often called pheromones, that enable them to swarm in response to danger or quickly congregate on a picnic blanket. These cues, according to Dr. Athula Attygalle of Stevens Institute of Technology, may also signal fly parasites that rely on ants as hosts. Dr. Attygalle, an expert in both natural products chemistry and mass spectrometry, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate ant pheromones. Together with evolutionary biologist Dr. Donald Feener of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Professor Attygalle [Read more...]

Swarm Intelligence Enables Better Nerve Grafts

September 15, 2011

NIH funded collaborative research adds computational models of swarm intelligence based neural networks to tissue engineering. As technology advances towards complex tissue engineering methods, scientists are hitting a ceiling on how accurate computer models can simulate tissue grafts grown to repair a patient's damaged tissues. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has recently awarded a grant to researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology to pursue novel approaches to engineering peripheral nerve tissues that incorporate lessons from swarm intelligence into computer simulations. Dr. XiaojunYu, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Yan Meng, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, are collaborating to break [Read more...]