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Penn State researchers analyze breast cancer data for the Center for Structural Oncology and the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering in a lab in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building. They include Madison C. Evans (left), undergraduate researcher in biomedical engineering and Schreyer Scholar; GM Jonaid (center), doctoral candidate in bioinformatics and genomics at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; and Deb Kelly (right), professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Structural Oncology (CSO). IMAGE: JAMIE OBERDICK

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Deb Kelly hopes to 'outsmart breast cancer'

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One of the pioneering researchers in the fight against breast cancer is Deb Kelly, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Structural Oncology at Penn State.

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Workshop participants collaborate in the CSL Behring Fermentation Facility in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. IMAGE: DAN LESHER

CSL Behring honored as Penn State’s Corporate Partner of the Year

Penn State has named global biotech leader CSL Behring as its 2019 Corporate Partner of the Year. The University presented the award to corporate representatives at a luncheon today (Oct. 18).

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New Faculty Position at Huck Institutes and Department of Biomedical Engineering

A tenure-line faculty position is available in the field of cell therapies and biomanufacturing.

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Siela Maximova, professor of horticulture in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. IMAGE: PENN STATE

Nov 06, 2019

Global Faculty Fellow will create connections between Penn State and Colombia

Siela Maximova, research professor of plant biotechnology, has been named a Global Faculty Fellow in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and a Land Grant University U.S.-Colombia Fulbright Scholar.

New research shows that sporozoite stage parasites inside their mosquito host use translational repression to prepare for unpredictable transmission from mosquitoes to humans. This energetically expensive strategy might have weak spots that could be exploited to fight malaria.

Oct 31, 2019

Malaria parasite lives on the edge

The parasite that causes malaria expresses genes that code for the proteins it will need in later life stages, using two separate schemes to prevent these proteins from actually being made until they are needed, according to new research.

An enhanced microfluidic device allows researchers to simultaneously observe thousands of individual cells that are infected with virus. This close-up of the device shows 18 wells, each containing a single cell. IMAGE: CAMERON LAB, PENN STATE

Oct 30, 2019

Empowering drug discovery by evaluating antivirals in thousands of single cells

A new enhancement to a lab-on-a-chip device allows researchers to simultaneously observe thousands of individual cells that are infected with a virus, providing important information about infection dynamics not available using traditional methods.

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Wednesday Nov

“A Novel Patient-derived AML Model in Humanized Mice for Preclinical Studies of Leukemia Immunology”

Wednesday Nov

Stem Cell Models for Studying Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis

Bioinformatics and Genomics , Genome Sciences Institute

Thursday Nov

CIDD Seminar: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Evolution of Sex and the Red Queen

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics