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Bajpayee Awarded R21 Grant to Develop Therapies for Treating Lower Back Pain

BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee, in collaboration with Nadeen Chahine from Columbia University Health Sciences, was awarded a $222K R21 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for “Sustained Delivery of RhoA activator for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.”

Faculty and Staff Awards 2022

Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2021-2022 academic school year.

BioE’s Bajpayee Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Drug Delivery Biomaterials

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee received a $630K NSF CAREER Award for “Developing electrically charged biomaterials for targeted drug delivery to negatively charged complex tissue environments.” Her research will investigate how to improve drug delivery in tissues within the human body that are not receptive to systemic or local drug delivery methods due to their […]

Leading the Way in STEM Research

Cameron Young, E’22, chemical engineering and biochemistry, was nominated for the Churchill Scholarship, which funds a year of post-baccalaureate study for ambitious, accomplished young researchers in the STEM fields at Churchill College, Cambridge University. Cam Young is a dual chemical engineering and biochemistry major whose ambitions revolve around creating the next generation of personalized, pediatric […]

Bioengineering Master’s Alumna is Lead Co-Author of Research Paper Published on Cover of Tissue Engineering Part A Journal

While conducting research, Boting Li, ME’19, bioengineering, harvested biomaterials from Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif’s lab and cell cultures from Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee’s lab to create a model to rebuild tissues caused by cartilage defects. While working on this project she developed a more effective protocol to harvest cells from bovine tissue. Her work to her becoming the lead co-author on a paper that was published in the June 2021 issue of Tissue Engineering Part A and featured on its cover.

COE Research Featured on Cover of Tissue Engineering Part A

Research from Assistant Professors Sidi A. Bencherif (ChE) and Ambika G. Bajpayee (BioE) on “Hyaluronic Acid-Based Shape-Memory Cryogel Scaffolds for Focal Cartilage Defect Repair” was featured on the cover of the June 2021 Tissue Engineering Part A journal.

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Bajpayee’s Lab Research on Cover of Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator Issue 2021

Research of Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee, bioengineering, and her team was published on the cover of the Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator Issue 2021 of the journal Biomaterials Science. The paper, titled “Milk exosomes with enhanced mucus penetrability for oral delivery of siRNA,” was in collaboration with Sanofi. Key authors in addition to Bajpayee, include first […]

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Two COE Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Cameron Young, E’22, chemical engineering and biochemistry, and Spencer Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, electrical engineering, were awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the United States’ premier award for outstanding young researchers in STEM fields.

Bajpayee Nominated as Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee was nominated as Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator 2021 for her paper “Milk exosomes with enhanced mucus penetrability for oral delivery of siRNA.”

Developing Electrically Charged Biomaterials for Drug Delivery

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee, in collaboration with Ryan Porter from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was awarded a $2.2M grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for “Intra-Cartilage Depot Delivery of Electrically-Charged IL-1RA for Targeting Osteoarthritis-Associated Inflammation and Catabolism in Multiple Joint Tissues”.

Developing an Oral Time Released Drug Delivery System that Lasts a Month

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee is developing a drug delivery system that can remain in the stomach for weeks releasing medication slowly over the course of a month.

Bajpayee Awarded NIH Trailblazer R21 Grant

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee(PI) and Jiahe Li (co-PI) were awarded a $628K NIH Trailblazer grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for “Anti-Catabolic Drug Anchored Cationic Exosomes For Cartilage Targeting And Repair”.

Wagner Named 2019 Goldwater Scholar

Earned the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the United States’ premier award for outstanding young researchers in STEM fields.

Bajpayee and Slavov Receive Sanofi iAwards

BioE Assistant Professors Ambika Bajpayee and Nikolai Slavov were each recipients of a $125K Sanofi iAward, which were created to promote scientific breakthroughs by tapping into the world’s greatest minds through close collaboration with renowned academic institutions.

BioE Professor Ambika Bajpayee receives NIH award

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee was awarded a $157k NIH grant for "Charge driven contrast enhanced computed tomography for imaging negatively charged tissues". The grant which will develop charge based probes for CT imaging of cartilage is a two-year R03 award with the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Read more about research […]

Groundbreaking Medical Research

At Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, a second-year student can be at the forefront of groundbreaking medical research. That’s exactly where Erica Wagner, BS Bioengineering 2020, finds herself right now. Working in the lab of BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee, Wagner has been on the front lines of the creation of a new method of […]

Erica Wagner, E’20, Receives Early Research and Creative Endeavor Award

Working in the lab of BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee, Erica Wagner has been on the front lines of the creation of a new method of treatment for intervertebral disc issues for which she recently received the Early Research and Creative Endeavor Award.

Becoming More Resilient to Aging

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajapayee along with COS Assistant Professor Justin Crane propose to increase resilience in the aging population by developing novel ways of treating osteoarthritis (OA), the most common musculoskeletal disease and the leading cause of immobility.