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    Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory

  • Shellaina Gordon, a biochemistry student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship to support her pursuit of a career in medicine and science. Photo courtesy Shellaina Gordon

    Black people are underrepresented in medical research. She wants to change that.


    For as long as Shellaina Gordon can remember, her understanding of ‘research’ has conjured images of white laboratory coats and test tubes. But she never saw anyone who looked like her. Gordon, a biochemistry student at Northeastern, has won a Goldwater Scholarship to support her pursuit of a career in medicine and science.

    • by Khalida Sarwari   June 24, 2020
  • Oyinda Oyelaran is a teaching professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Science. Photo courtesy Oyinda Oyelaran

    How teaching organic chemistry can be like teaching a foreign language


    For most of her life, Oyinda Oyelaran never expected she’d be a teacher. That all changed when she had the opportunity to mentor an undergraduate student during her postdoctoral fellowship. This year, Oyelaran was selected as one of two faculty to receive Northeastern University’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

    • by Molly Callahan   March 27, 2020
  • Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Chair of pharmaceutical biotechnology, recently imaged the full structure of cannabinoid receptor type 2, one of the two proteins responsible for the effects of cannabinoids in the body. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    Cannabis will transform medicine—once we figure out how to get rid of its side effects


    To produce better drugs for chronic pain, mental illness, and other health problems, Northeastern professor Alexandros Makriyannis is making new molecules in the lab—the same kind that give people a high when they smoke marijuana.

    • by Roberto Molar Candanosa   February 19, 2020
  • A house made out of a plastic-like material created by bacteria in Neel Joshi's lab. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    Could houses of the future be made by bacteria?


    Imagine if we could grow a building the way coral polyps grow a reef, or if living cells in our clothes could break down sweat and body odor. It’s not science fiction, says associate professor Neel Joshi. It’s the future of scientific research in the U.S.

    • by Laura Castañón   February 5, 2020
  • Steven A. Lopez is an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Science at Northeastern. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    He’s training computers to find new molecules with the machine learning algorithms used by Facebook and Google


    Using the same techniques that help social media algorithms learn about you, Northeastern assistant professor Steven Lopez is training machine learning algorithms to find millions of new molecules and help make materials for cancer therapy, renewable energy, and other important technologies.

    • by Roberto Molar Candanosa   January 6, 2020
  • Former graduate student Camille Martin, working with Northeastern chemistry and chemical biology professor Leila Deravi, has synthesized a chemical found in the skin of longfin squid. The goal? To recreate the animal's natural sun-blocking ability. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    Synthetic squid can save you from sunburn


    There’s nothing worse than a sunburn. Actually, there is—the potential damage that sunscreen can do to our bodies and the environment. …

    • by Aria Bracci   September 25, 2019
  • A model of a molecule.

    The hunt for a cure for hard-to-reach cancers


    Steven Lopez, an assistant professor of chemistry at Northeastern, is searching for molecules that could help create light-based treatments for larger cancers or those in hard-to-reach areas, such as the brain.

    • by Laura Castañón   September 9, 2019
  • Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are developing new ways to predict the function of an enzyme by looking at the roles of the individual amino acids that make up its structure. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

    They want to reveal the chemistry of every enzyme ever


    Using a combination of computational predictions and experimental testing, Northeastern researchers are trying to predict the function of an enzyme by looking at the individual amino acids that make up its structure.

    • by Laura Castañón   August 20, 2019
  • Fulbright scholar Zoe Bishop has always been intrigued by Eastern culture and traditions. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

    Her dream didn’t come true and she couldn’t be happier about that


    Zoe Bishop, who will receive a degree in biochemistry at Commencement, is among nine Fulbright scholars who will be celebrated by President Joseph E. Aoun at the Academic Honors Convocation on Thursday.

    • by Ian Thomsen   April 17, 2019
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