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Recently Published: Computationally Designed ACE2 Decoy Receptor Binds SARS-CoV-2 Spike (S) Protein with Tight Nanomolar Affinity
Abstract Even with the availability of vaccines, therapeutic options for COVID-19 still remain highly desirable, especially in hospitalized patients with moderate or severe disease. Soluble ACE2 (sACE2) is a promising therapeutic candidate that neutralizes SARS CoV-2 infection by acting as a decoy...
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Necrobots - "There is a lot to be learned from biology and nature," Rashid Bashir
Science News (Washington, D.C., Aug. 4) – "Scientists turned dead spiders into robots": In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers converted the corpses of wolf spiders into grippers that can manipulate objects. Rashid Bashir, a bioengineer at the U. of I. who wasn’t...
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Advanced imaging, AI distinguish healthy from injured cells
Beckman researchers use artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to distinguish healthy cells from injured cells. Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can...
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NSP Faculty Elected to AAAS Fellows: Mark Hauber
Mark Hauber, a professor of evolution, ecology, and environment, is one of 14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members to be elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hauber, the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions,...
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Eva Fischer
How would you describe your background? (I.E. Where are you from? How did you first get interested in your area of research? Etc.) I grew up in Colorado, and then I went to undergrad on the east coast. I really wanted to live somewhere with deciduous trees, having grown up with a bunch of pine trees. When I started college, I had a lot of different interests and I wasn't really that sure what I wanted to do. So definitely not one of those people who knew from day one what they wanted to be when they grew up. I took a range of classes. I was taking some...

NSP Alumna Kelsey Hassevoort receives 2022 NORDP Rising Star Award
Join us in congratulating IHSI research development manager and Neuroscience Program alumna, Dr. Kelsey Hassevoort, who recently received the 2022 Rising Star Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) for her outstanding, early career contributions to the organization and her strong potential for future contributions to the field of research development. “I’m honored to...

Jennifer Walters, in Hee Jung Chung's lab