BTP trainee Liz Appelt helped develop COVID-19 mRNA vaccine during internship at Afrigen, the first vaccine and biologics biotechnology company on the African continent.
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A New Tactic in the Superbug Battle
BTP mentor Vatsan Raman is “supercharging evolution” to create an army of bacteria-killing phages that can combat antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
Fox and Ralph awarded DOE grant to characterize gene function in bioenergy crop plants
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $178 million for bioenergy research to advance sustainable technology breakthroughs that can improve public health, help address climate change, improve food and agricultural production, and create more …
BTP trainee Jose Martinez selected as a fellow of the Yale Ciencia Academy
BTP trainee Jose Martinez was selected as a fellow of the National Institutes of Health-funded Yale Ciencia Academy (YCA) for Career Development. Last month, he and fifteen other young science leaders from across the US …
Recent BTP trainee Erin Birdsall’s thesis earns science communication award
Recent BTP trainee and Department of Chemistry graduate student Erin Birdsall has received a 2022 Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy (WISL) Award for Communicating Ph.D. Research to the Public for including a chapter in her …
BTP mentor Nate Sherer named Romnes Fellow
Congratulations to BTP mentor Nate Sherer, who was named a 2022-23 Romnes Fellow. The Romnes Fellowships recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award …
Game-changer: New Tech Could Transform Biotechnology
The Joshua Coon Lab has united the power of two major tools in biotechnology. In research published April 27 in Nature Communications, the lab describes a game-changing advance that marries mass spectrometry and electron microscopy …
Museums: Where conservation and chemistry connect
In 2020, chemistry graduate student Erin Birdsall received a unique opportunity — to the live the life of a conservation chemist as an intern at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). “I’ve always been interested …
2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipients announced
Two graduate students in the Biotechnology Training Program have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) awards. The five-year NSF GRFP program supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are …
Jose Martinez connects science and policy as a BTP trainee
While working as a health care administrator in Santa Cruz, California during the 2015 Zika virus outbreak, Jose Martinez realized his background in chemistry and pharmacology could be harnessed to set policies that are grounded …