Pettitt awarded major bionano training grant
A $2.8 million grant from NIH for bionano training and research received by Dr. B. Montgomery Pettitt, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, will help prepare the next generation of scientists among Houston universities and medical schools.
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Litvinov received $1.1 million for data storage research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Dmitri Litvinov, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering $1.1 million to attempt to create the first nanopatterned medium recording (N-PMR) at the scale of one terabyte per square inch and explore the physical limits of magnetic data storage in four nanometers units.
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Advincula and Krause invited to national nanotechnology conference
Dr. Rigoberto Advincula, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Kurt Krause, Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, are two of only twelve Gulf Coast researchers invited to attend this highly selective conference. Their research in biosensors to aid in diagnostic health care and designing devices to combat HIV are the subjects of their work.
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Kurt Krause at work in his UH lab
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Professor Krause Presents at Protein Conference
In Kurt Krause’s laboratory, what starts off as a mere molecule may soon become a potential drug to treat tuberculosis. Krause, an associate professor of biology and biochemistry at UH recently discussed this research at The Protein Society’s 18th Annual Symposium - “Protein Structure, Function and Disease” in San Diego.
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Alliance for NanoHealth Receives Federal Funds
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Rep. John Culberson (R-Houston) were on campus recently to announce federal funding for the new Alliance for NanoHealth. The alliance, a coalition of five Houston research institutions, has been awarded $2.8 million in federal funds as part of the recently approved Department of Defense’s appropriations bill. Hutchison and Culberson led the way in acquiring this money along with Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land).
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Pettitt's Biochip Work Featured at Nano Event
Biochip research at UH aimed at disease diagnosis and drug development was presented to an international audience of top nanoscientists when B. Montgomery Pettitt, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, served as one of the plenary speakers at the recent Pacific Rim Nanoscience Conference Broome, Western Australia. Pettitt was one of only three American scientists among the 21 invited speakers.
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Krishnamoorti Discusses Polymer Research at ACS
Along with six other UH researchers, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, associate professor of chemical engineering, presented his work at the 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society recently in Philadelphia. His presentation revealed the development of super-strength and lightweight fibers of nylon and other polyester-based polymers, as well as development of a new class of biodegradable and biocompatible polymer composites with enhanced mechanical properties that are lightweight for potential applications in biomedical devices and drug delivery using carbon nanotubes.
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Biosensor Project May Aid Homeland Security
A tissue engineering research project may be vitally important to homeland security, because our current methods of ensuring the safety of water and food supply are sometimes no more sophisticated than a chain-link fence.
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