Triantafillos Mountziaris, professor and chair of the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was elected to Senior Member status of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his research developments stemming from his novel optical biosensors for rapid quantitative point-of-care medical diagnostics. |
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Muna Naash will use a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to expand a method of gene therapy with the hopes it will restore vision loss in Usher Syndrome Type 2a, a rare genetic disease. |
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Hao Huang, distinguished professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, has been named a Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors. Huang will be officially inducted along with 169 inventors at the academy’s annual meeting in June 2023. Election as an NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. |
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Jacinta Conrad is the fifteenth member of the UH faculty to receive the honor. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society’s membership is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering Ganesh Thakur has been elected as the next vice president, and eventual president, of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST). He will serve a two-year term as vice president beginning in 2023 before becoming president in 2025. |
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Xiaonan Shan and a team of UH researchers have developed an operando reflection interference microscope (RIM) that provides a better understanding of how batteries work, which has significant implications for the next generation of batteries. |
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Chandra Mohan and Richard Wilson are pioneering a smartphone-based application and test kit for lupus nephritis based on the technology underlying home pregnancy tests.
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Birol Dindoruk and a team of researchers published a landmark study evaluating the potential of geothermal – the naturally occurring renewable energy harnessed from the heat emanating from the earth’s core – as an abundant clean energy source in Texas and its potential to scale globally over the coming decades. |
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Jeffrey Rimer reports a new method to control the growth of ammonium urate crystals, the substance known to cause kidney stones in dolphins, and the findings may have implications for the pharmaceutical industry. |
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Stanko R. Brankovic, has received a $300,000 grant to continue his research into creating a new magnetic alloy with superior properties for induction application. |
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Top battery experts Yan Yao and Yanliang “Leonard” Liang, contend that the gold-standard lithium-ion battery is about to get some competition. They are betting on humble aqueous batteries—with water-based electrolytes – generally regarded as safe, reliable, and affordable. |
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