Oct 3, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
Northwestern University has been chosen by the National Science Foundation to lead a new Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI). The national center’s diverse research team will focus on harnessing the power of biocatalysis found in nature to forge new processes for a...
Sep 20, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
In the coming decades, efforts to understand disease will be propelled by building 3D maps of protein arrangements in cells over time, a team of scientists says. A workshop about the study of proteins on a large scale — proteomics — yielded a perspective piece that is...
Sep 9, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
Investigators led by Neil Kelleher, PhD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have developed a new imaging technique that increases the detection of intact proteoforms by fourfold when compared to...
Sep 6, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
“While scientists have made great strides in understanding the human genome, our understanding of human genetics hasn’t been effectively translated into new therapeutics,” says Xiaoyu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern and member of the Chemistry...
Jul 25, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
Ever since her days as a graduate student in Northwestern’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) graduate program, Mani Mohindru, PhD, chief executive officer of Novasenta, has defied boundaries. She chose NUIN for its interdepartmental approach that gives students...
Jun 6, 2022 | Biotech, Frontpage, News, Translation
Setting audacious goals for technology innovation is a critical component of the Human Proteoform Project, a $1.3 billion movement to weigh and characterize every protein variation, (called proteoforms) in the human body. A new technology announced today,...
