BOSTON - President Marty Meehan today announced $215,000 in funding for a program that over the past 13 years has seen UMass invest $2,355,000 in faculty R&D projects, leading to $15 million in…, Matthew Bell, Ph.D., Engineering Department, UMass Boston, "Practical Quantum Limited Amplifiers for Secure Communications and Quantum Information Processing" This team will prototype and commercialize a new type of low-noise amplifier to be used in a…, Sivappa Rasapalli, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMass Dartmouth, "Developing Novel Antibiotics: Biomimetic Optimization of Marine Natural Product Inspired Leads for Dual Efflux pump-Biofilm Inhibition (DEBI)" This team at UMass Dartmouth has developed anti-…, Alfred Crosby, Ph.D., Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, UMass Amherst, "CR Diagnostics: Measuring In Vivo, Soft Tissue Mechanics" This technology, which involves the measurement of pressure in synthetic materials or biological tissue, in vivo, addresses a critical need…, Beth A. McCormick, Ph.D.; Regino Mercado-Lubo, MD, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, UMass Medical School, "Development of SipA Adjuvant Chemotherapy Targeted to Multidrug Resistant Tumors" The technology will develop and utilize a bacterial pathogen to assist in cancer therapeutics, with the aim of…, Akshay Kokil, Ph.D.; Daniel Schmidt, Ph.D., Department of Plastics Engineering, UMass Lowell, "Vinyl hydroxyl Ether Resins (VHER): A New Family of Resins" Vinyl hydroxyl ether resins are designed to display superior chemical and thermal resistance. Potential commercial applications include…, Joey Mead, Ph.D., Carol Barry D. Eng., Artee Panwar, Ph.D., Tehila Nahum, Ph.D. student, Department of Plastics Engineering, UMass Lowell, (with Hanna Dodiuk and Samuel Kenig from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel) "Commercialization of Corrosion Resistant Coatings with Improved Durability" The team will develop…, Jie Song, Ph.D., Department of Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation, UMass Medical School, "Injectable temporary surgical adhesion barriers" This technology features injectable hydrogels with precisely controlled degradation over a broad timeframe to prevent scarring and internal tissue…, Gang Han, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, UMass Medical School, "The Development of Near-infrared Persistent Luminescence Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications" Han's lab has developed new bioluminescence-like nanoparticles. The successful development of these…, Alexey Tonyushkin, Ph.D., Physics Department, UMass Boston, "Novel Design of FFL-based Magnetic Particle Imaging Devices," $5,000 award Magnetic Particle Imaging or MPI is an emerging biomedical imaging that is more advanced than Magnetic Resonance Imaging (…, Kenneth Carter Ph.D. and Yinyong Li, Ph.D. student, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst, "FogKicker," $10,000 award The FogKicker is a new, patent-pending anti-fog solution made from natural materials. The major raw material, nanocellulose, can be easily made from recycled materials such…
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