Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering

Stevens Researcher Applies Innovative Approach to Lung Ventilation

June 11, 2013

Despite an incidence of nearly 200,000 per year in the United States and a mortality rate in excess of 35%, acute lung injury is not a well-known condition. A variety of disorders or injuries, including sepsis, pneumonia, and severe trauma, can result in acute lung injury or its more serious form, the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Regardless of cause, a characteristic feature of acute lung injury and ARDS is pulmonary edema, in which liquid leaks from the blood vessels into the airspace of the lungs. Pulmonary edema makes breathing difficult and can lead to dangerously low levels of oxygen [Read more...]

Stevens Researcher Awarded NIH Grant to Improve Treatment for Acute Lung Injury

June 11, 2013

Dr. Carrie E. Perlman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health for her research on acute lung injury. Mechanical ventilation, the current treatment for acute lung injury, unfortunately causes a secondary, over-distension injury that exacerbates the initial lung condition. Dr. Perlman hopes that her work will lead to an alternative treatment that would cause less or no secondary damage. Acute lung injury, while not widely known, has an incidence of nearly 200,000 per year in the United States and a mortality rate in excess of 35%. Such [Read more...]

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...]