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During her co-op at Besxar Space Industries, mechanical engineering and bioengineering student Rhea Dharia, E’27, helped design equipment to test semiconductor manufacturing in the vacuum of outer space.

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BioE Professor Ning Wang explores how cells retain and respond to past physical forces, advancing our understanding of cellular memory and opening up new possibilities for treating aging and various diseases.

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Ambika Goel Bajpayee, Professor of Bioengineering at Northeastern University, has received a five-year, $3.1 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a nonviral, cartilage-targeted gene therapy for osteoarthritis (OA).

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Sarah Armentrout, Co-founder and Head of School at Carlisle Academy, tells us about her experience as a Bioengineering Capstone Sponsor by @nu_bioe

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Christa Haase, assistant professor at Northeastern University jointly appointed in Bioengineering and Physics, has been awarded a five-year, $2.2 million R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The award, granted through NIGMS’s Early Stage Investigator (ESI) program, will support Haase’s research program, “From Motion to Mechanism: How Cellular Dynamics Shape Molecular Programs and Function In Vivo.”

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Nikolai Slavov, a COE Distinguished Professor and director of the Single-Cell Proteomics Center, is featured in a Nature technology feature tracing the field’s evolution from an unproven idea to a robust, discovery-driving technology.

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Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, MS’21, founder and CEO of Tatum Robotics, will serve as the featured alumni speaker at Northeastern University’s Boston Convocation, where she will share how her student experiences led her to develop tactile-signing robotic technology for the DeafBlind community.

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Four Northeastern University College of Engineering alumnae and students were recognized in the 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards, celebrating bold leadership, creative problem-solving, and entrepreneurial impact across medical technology, health, and wellness.

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Student Spotlight🔦

Evan Yee completed his bachelor’s degree in combined bioengineering and biochemistry at Northeastern this spring.

Yee was an undergraduate researcher at the Optical Microscopy and Neuro-Imaging Lab (OMNI) at Northeastern. His work centered on a specialized microscope for mesoscopic imaging—a scale of observation that falls between the microscopic and what is visible to the naked eye—used to study the brains of awake, living rodents. Much of his work to date focused on making the microscope fully functional. Together with his colleagues, he used the instrument alongside genetically modified mice with small surgically implanted windows in their skulls to study blood flow and brain activity in real time. Understanding these dynamics in living brains can illuminate what goes wrong in diseased states and point toward potential treatments. Yee received the PEAK Summit Spring 2025 award for his work replacing a segment of the microscope responsible for delivering light to the brain’s surface with an improved lens system.

Since his second year, Yee has been mentored by Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Mohammad Abbas Yaseen, who also serves as his research advisor. Professor Yaseen has been a consistent source of guidance across both research and career questions, and Yee is struck by how reliably he makes time for students despite his many responsibilities. He also singles out Professor Yaseen’s clarity as a teacher and his evident passion for the subject. The relationship has been, in Yee’s view, a defining part of his Northeastern experience.

This fall, Yee moves on to medical school as his immediate next step, with plans to layer in more engineering as his career develops.

Read his story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/aligning-two-paths-evan-yees-journey-with-medicine-and-engineering/
Check out his program here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-bioc/

#NUCOE #Engineering #Medicine #Bioengineering #EngineeredforSuccess by @nu_bioe

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Austen Herlihy completed her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and biochemistry at Northeastern last spring.

In her fourth year, Herlihy joined the Godoy-Carter Microbiology Lab at Northeastern, working on a project studying microorganisms that thrive in extreme environments—deserts, polar regions, and similarly harsh conditions. She was particularly drawn to the vividly pigmented samples in the collection: striking orange, blue, and pink bacteria. She investigated whether that unusual pigmentation might serve as a survival mechanism in such demanding conditions. The project grew substantially, and Herlihy applied for PEAK funding, receiving the Summit Spring 2025 Award for her efforts.

One of the most meaningful experiences of Herlihy’s time at Northeastern was a Dialogue of Civilizations she took in 2024 with Professor Veronica Godoy-Carter, traveling to Chile to collect environmental samples for analysis. Beyond its scientific value, the experience gave her a vivid model of what it looks like to be a woman thriving in STEM. Professor Godoy-Carter is both a rigorous scientist and someone who clearly loves her work—and that warmth and enthusiasm extend to her students.

Herlihy plans to pursue a PhD in gene therapy or genetic engineering, though she is keeping her options open. She is grateful to Northeastern for giving her the space and support to explore her interests across every experience she pursued.

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/built-in-boston-how-northeastern-shaped-a-future-leader-in-genetic-medicine/
Check out her program here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-bioc/

#NUCOE #Bioengineering #WomeninSTEM #DialogueofCivilizations by @nu_bioe

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Student Spotlight 🔦

Hannah Carter completed her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering last spring and has rounded it out with a master’s in bioengineering through the PlusOne Program at Northeastern.

Carter entered the research world early, joining the Advanced Biosystems for Neuroengineering Lab (ABNEL) in her first year. At the time, the lab focused on “organ-on-a-chip” systems—small devices embedded with human cells that mimic the functions of organs. She began by shadowing PhD students, learning proper lab technique and getting a feel for the research environment. Once she found her footing, she launched her own project and received the PEAK Ascent Spring 2023 Award for her efforts.

The most important thing Carter has learned at Northeastern is that independence, taken too far, becomes unsustainable. She came in with a strong self-reliant streak and an instinct to figure things out on her own. A few difficult bioengineering courses showed her that using available resources—tutoring, office hours, study groups—doesn’t diminish that independence; it makes it more durable. She now advises students not to be afraid to ask for help, and to invest in relationships with both professors and peers.

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/helping-others-through-innovations-in-bioengineering/
Check out her program here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-bion/
Take your learning higher with the PlusOne program → https://coe.northeastern.edu/academics-experiential-learning/graduate-school-of-engineering/graduate-academic-programs/accelerated-masters/

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Uncovering Unexpected Protein Creation Processes in the Human Body

BioE Professor Nikolai Slavov and his team discovered that unexpected amino acid substitutions create abundant, stable proteins in the human body that deviate from standard genetic instructions.

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