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Unprecedented screen of 500,000 compounds reveals new candidates for malaria prevention drug
A new study, published December 7, 2018, in the journal Science by an international team of researchers including two from Penn State, reveals a new set of chemical starting points for the first drugs to prevent malaria instead of just treating its symptoms.
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Biomedical engineering welcomes pioneering cancer, cryo-electron microscopy researcher
Deborah Kelly, a ground-breaking researcher who developed the new field of structural oncology, will join the University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering as full professor and Lloyd and Dottie Foehr Huck Chair in Molecular Biophysics. Kelly will also hold a joint appointment with the Huck Institutes of Life Sciences and will serve as the director of the new Center for Structural Oncology (CSO) at Penn State.
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Andrew Read Named Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Dr. Read was previously director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, and will step into his new role January 1.
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Dec 10, 2018
Andrew Zydney named recipient of Alan S. Michaels Award
Zydney's work has had a major impact on the design and development of important commercial membrane processes for the purification of monoclonal antibodies, which are used in treating cancer and other immunologic disorders.
Dec 06, 2018
Unprecedented screen of 500,000 compounds reveals new candidates for malaria prevention drug
A new study, published December 7, 2018, in the journal Science by an international team of researchers including two from Penn State, reveals a new set of chemical starting points for the first drugs to prevent malaria instead of just treating its symptoms.
Dec 06, 2018
Honavar named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Vasant G. Honavar, professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected by the AAAS Section on Information, Computing, and Communication for his distinguished contributions to research and leadership in data science.