Navin Varadarajan is studying the dynamic interactions between T cells and tumor cells to determine which patients are likely to respond to CAR T-cell therapy to treat lymphoma. UH has obtained a patent on the process and Varadarajan co-founded the company, CellChorus, to commercialize it.
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The American Society of Mechanics Engineers (ASME) announced that Professor and Chairman, Pradeep Sharma, has taken over as the eighth editor-in-chief of one of its flagship journals, Journal of Applied Mechanics. |
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Megan Robertson received the distinction due to her innovations in polymer sustainability, including developing polymers from renewable resources and exploring structure-property relationships of biobased polymers.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation has chosen Debora Rodrigues as a Program Director under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. Rodrigues has experience as a CAREER award winner and has earned multiple NSF I-Corps grants. |
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UH professor Bo Zhao is reporting on a new type of solar energy harvesting system that breaks the efficiency record of all existing technologies, clearing the way to use solar power 24/7. |
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UH professor Hadi Ghasemi has developed a new de-icing spray that is 100 times stronger than any other. The new durable coating material has been tested by Boeing under erosive rain conditions at 385 miles per hour and has outperformed current state-of-the-art aerospace coating technologies. |
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Kirill Larin has received $2.8M in funding to develop new clinical technology and method capable of precise noninvasive and “no-touch” quantitative corneal measurements.
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Garima Singh, a doctoral student in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected for a prestigious workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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ChBE doctoral student Aman Agrawal, was among those presenting at this year's prestigious Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Bioinspired Materials in Switzerland, where he was elected to chair the next one, scheduled for 2024. |
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Cullen College doctoral student, Hussain Sayed, received the 2022 Joseph John Suozzi INTELEC® Fellowship Award in Power Electronics to examine the underlying elements that enable monitoring of the health status and reliability of individual power converters used in data centers. |
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