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Dr. Lu-Kwang Ju was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in February 2010. The fellows are recognized as “the outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry and government. These leaders in the field have distinguished themselves through their contributions in research, industrial practice and/or education.”
Dr. George Chase will be accepting the American Filtration and Separations Society Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The award honors an individual who has made significant fundamental contributions to the society through research, leadership, mentorship and good citizenship.
Dr. Jie Zheng was awarded a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). His proposal is titled "Computational studies of the structure and biological activity of amyloid forming peptides". This research aims to develop a multiscale modeling and simulation platform that integrates structural prediction, computational biology, and bioinformatics to establish a direct correlation between oligomer structural transition from the aqueous to the membrane environment and their biological activity in cell membranes, which is important for understanding molecular mechanism of the misfolding and aggregation of proteins associated with many human neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Prion Disease, and Diabetes Type II.