Office of Research Newsletter

June 2023

Dr. Metin Uz, Assistant Professor in Chemical & Biomedical Engineering and a Consultant Staff in Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, was recently awarded new NIDDK/NIH Stephen I. Katz Early-Stage Investigator Research Project Grant providing $2,339,409 in funding over five years to advance his lab's research. Read More »

Qin Lin Awarded NSF Research Grant for Industrial Cybersecurity

Dr. Qin Lin, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has been awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his team's research on cybersecurity of industrial control systems. The project, titled “ERI: Operator-Automation Shared Protection for Security and Safety Assured Industrial Control Systems: Learning, Detection, and Recovery Control,” is funded by the NSF’s Division of Electrical, Communication and Cyber Systems (ECCS). Read More »

Meet Daozhou Gao: Mathematics and Statistics

Dr. Daozhou Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His research interests mainly lie in mathematical epidemiology, population ecology and differential equations. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Miami in 2012 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco, pursing research on modeling and analyzing antibiotic resistance and mass drug administration for controlling trachoma. Read More »

Faculty Team Awarded National Institute of Food and Agriculture Award to Improve Food Safety

Dr. Daniel Munther and Dr. Shawn Ryan, both associate professors in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Dr. Chandra Kothapalli, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, will lead a new research project to improve the safety of our food supply. The researchers have received a three year, $498,178 award from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), a federal agency in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), to support their work. Read More »

U.S. Patent Application

Patent Application No. 17/987,058, titled “COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SICKLE CELL ANEMIA AND BETA-THALASSEMIA” and submitted by Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam and Mahesh Ramamoorthy, has been published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Both are Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD) researchers.

The invention provides a novel RNA binding protein to treat blood disorders including beta thalassemia and sickle cell anemia. In people with beta thalassemia, low levels of hemoglobin lead to a lack of oxygen in many parts of the body. Affected individuals also have a shortage of red blood cells (anemia) and an increased risk of developing abnormal blood clots.

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