Undergraduate Student Focus – Aisling Macaraeg Aisling Macaraeg’s path to NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee began as an inquisitive elementary school student! Aisling Macaraeg was awarded a NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee position on July 24th and is conducting research in Dr. Matthias Machner’s lab on uncovering effector mechanisms of the pathogenic bacteria Legionella pneumophila. […]
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Student News 2020 and Prior Years 2020 Giovannia Barbosa (Bridge ’20, SURF ’18) joined Dr. Sarah Delaney’s lab at Brown University as a Ph.D. student in December 2020, and as a Bridge to Graduate School Fellow in July 2020. RI-INBRE Mentor S. Delaney (Brown); K. Almeida (RIC) Dr. Dinesh Dhamecha is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow […]
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2021 Callen Bleick’s (SURF ’20-21). RI-INBRE SURF Mentors KL. LaPlante (URI). Poster Abstracts: – “Enhancing Adult Pneumococcal Vaccination Practice through Educational Academic Detailing Program in RI and MA Community Pharmacies.” 2021 American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition, virtual. December 2021. Abstract ID: 1129495. – “Antibiotic Strategies to Combat Biofilm Resistance in […]
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Investigator News 2022 Dr. Peter Belenky, Brown University Promotion: Associate Professor with tenure. July 2022 Dr. Edward T. Dougherty, Roger Williams University Promotion: Associate Professor. August 2022 Dr. Nicolas Lux Fawzi, Brown University Award: One of two recipients of the Protein Society’s Protein Science Young Investigator’s Award. 2022 Dr. Seann Mulcahy, Providence College – Meeting: Named the Program […]
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Investigator News 2020 A Dominican Microbiologist on a Possible Coronavirus Treatment. Published by Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, Providence College. March 27, 2020 Dr. Alisa Baron, University of Rhode Island, was recognized by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. She received: A $5,000 award for Advancing Academic-Research Career Award (2020-2022), was recognized with the Continuing Education Award (2020-2023), […]
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Investigator News 2021 Current State of Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Theranostics. Jyothi Menon, University of Rhode Island. Pharmaceutics. May 2021. PMID34069059 PMC8156889 A Substituted Diphenyl Amide Based Novel Scaffold Inhibits Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in a Galleria mellonella Infection Model. Published by Dr. Susan Meschwitz, Salve Regina University, and Dr. Beth Burgwyn Fuchs, RI Hospital/Brown University. Frontiers in Microbiology. PMID34675898 PMC8524085 […]
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Investigator News 2019 Is there an upside to those nasty toxic algae blooms? Maybe, says URI scientist. Dr. Matthew Bertin, University of Rhode Island. October 30, 2019 URI Chemical Engineering Professor lands NSF CAREER Award for New Imaging Technique. Dr. Daniel Roxbury, University of Rhode Island. July 11, 2019 Research could unearth environmental breakthrough for CCRI biology […]
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Investigator Spotlight Nicole Urban, PhD “Accessible Neurologic Therapy and Assistive Devices Incorporating Smart Textiles” Dr. Nicole Urban, Associate Professor at Johnson and Wales University, “strives to bring science to life in the classroom.” She utilized her RI-INBRE funding (Pilot Proposal Development ’22-23) for the project “Accessible Neurologic Therapy and Assistive Devices Incorporating Smart Textiles” and […]
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Investigator Focus Benjamin McDonald, PhD Developing Photonic Thin Films for Colorimetric Detection of Waterborne Pollutants Access to safe drinking and recreational water in the United States is a significant issue for much of the population and Dr. Benjamin McDonald is researching simple portable devices urgently needed to detect harmful microbes and chemical pollutants. McDonald is […]
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Students’ Career Success in Biomedical Industries RI-INBRE’s goal is to support junior faculty and train students Our student training program has been particularly successful with training 1,685 undergraduate students, 234 graduate students, and 56 postdoctoral fellows, as of the fall of 2022. Tracking their progress helps us measure our success and we currently have career […]
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