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Patent for Magnetic Microwires in Medical Treatments
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, and ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for “Magnetic microwires for energy-transporting biomedical applications.”
ChE PhD Student Recognized at BioEl 2025 Conference
Bryan Schellberg, PhD’25, chemical engineering, placed third in the student-talks category at the BioEl 2025 conference in Austria for his presentation “In-Situ Monitoring of Cellular Function On-Chip via Automated, Non-Invasive Luminescence Sensing.”
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Investigating the Gut-Brain Axis in Patients With Sjögren’s Syndrome
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes received a 2024 Sjögren’s Foundation Pilot Research Grant for “Parsing Dysautonomia in a Dish: Neural Exposure to Exogenous Sjögren’s Patient Derived Serum.” She is developing an organ-on-a-chip to controllably study and disrupt the nervous system in the gut-brain axis environment of Sjögren’s patients typically inaccessible in vivo.
New Modeling for Intestinal Health
Research conducted by Kyla Kaiser, PhD’24, chemical engineering, Jessica Snyder, PhD’23, bioengineering, ChE Associate Professors Ryan Koppes, and Abigail Koppes on “A Pumpless, High-Throughput Microphysiological System To Mimic Enteric Innervation of Duodenal Epithelium and the Impact on Barrier Function” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Long COVID: What We’re Learning From Scientists and Patients About Pathogens and Chronic Illness
ChE Associate Professor Abby Koppes was featured in the episode “Long COVID: What We’re Learning From Scientists and Patients About Pathogens and Chronic Illness” on the American Chemical Society (ACS) Tiny Matters podcast, where she discussed her research in neural engineering and experiences with Long COVID.
Four Years on: The Career Costs for Scientists Battling Long COVID
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes was featured in the Nature article “Four Years on: The Career Costs for Scientists Battling Long COVID” for her experiences dealing with long COVID.
Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
A record number of engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
NIH Trailblazer Award for Engineering Smarter Gut Metabolites To Affect Human Health
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston is leading a $628K NIH Trailerblazer Award with Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, Associate Professor Abigail Koppes, and Professor Rebecca Carrier for “Engineered Probiotics for Closed-Loop Control of Disease-Associated Gut Metabolites in Gut-On-Chip Models.”
Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Abigail Koppes: Advancing Technology, Treatment, and Diversity in Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor Abigail Koppes, chemical engineering, began her career as a Future Faculty Fellow through Northeastern’s ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development. Today she is an associate professor, has two patents, and numerous young investigator recognitions.
GelMA/MeTro Composites for Peripheral Nerve Repair
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes and Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes were awarded a patent for creating “Gelatin/elastin composites for peripheral nerve repair.”
Improving Fluidic Devices for Cell Cultures
ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes and Associate Professor Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for designing a “Fluidic device and method of assembling same.”
Congratulations RISE: 2022 Winners
Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2022 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!
$2M NASA Grant To Build Long Lasting Neurovascular Model
BioE Associate Professor Guohao Dai, ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes, and ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes received a $2M grant from NASA titled “Bioengineer Long-lasting 3D Neurovascular Microphysiological System to Model Chronic Inflammation-mediated Neurodegeneration”.
Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
PhD Spotlight: David R. Dias Vera, PhD’20 – Chemical Engineering
Advised by Abigail Koppes, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering After receiving his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo in 2013, David R. Diaz Vera, […]
Abigail Koppes Selected for 2021 NASA STAR Program
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes was selected to be part of the highly competitive NASA’s Spaceflight Technologies, Application, and Research (STAR) Program for working with NASA and flight-ready experiment design.
Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE undergraduate students are recipients of the Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Improving Vein Grafts for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
BioE Associate Professor Guohao Dai (PI), ChE Assistant Professors Ryan Koppes (PI), and Abigail Koppes (co-PI) were awarded a $430K NIH grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Bioengineer a Humanized Autonomic Neurovascular Innervation on a Chip”.
NSF CAREER Award to Understand How the Nervous System Regulates Gut Inflammation
Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes, chemical engineering, received a $500K NSF CAREER Award, titled “Defining the Regulators of Enteric Plasticity in Engineered Microfluidic Environments.” Her research focuses on developing new, non-invasive methods of exploring human cellular responses to biological signals. She and her team are developing plastic, disposable handheld devices that expose engineered tissue to a range of signals, then measure its response.
Spring 2021 PEAK Experience Recipients
Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they […]
Abigail Koppes Receives the 2020 CMBE Young Innovator Award
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes received the 2020 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator Award, in which CMBE publishes the most innovative and impactful bioengineering studies carried out by junior faculty in the field.
Abigail and Ryan Koppes Featured on Inside Front Cover of Advanced Biosystems
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes’ research on “Reconfigurable Microphysiological Systems for Modeling Innervation and Multitissue Interactions” was published in the September issue of Advanced Biosystems.
Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes Published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes published their research in the Journal of Neuroscience titled: “The effects of low intensity focused ultrasonic stimulation on dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells in vitro.”
Abigail Koppes Receives BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes won the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Cryopreservation of Cardiac Autonomic Neurons
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes and Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes’ research on “Cryopreservation and functional analysis of cardiac autonomic neurons” was published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
Investigating Intestinal Inflammation
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes and Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes’ research on “Cholinergic Activation of Primary Human Derived Intestinal Epithelium Does Not Ameliorate TNF-α Induced Injury” was published in the latest issue of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.
Advancements in Microphysiological Systems
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes, Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, and PhD Student Kyla Nichols’ research on “Recent advancements in microphysiological systems for neural development and disease” was published in the Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering.
Why I paused my Ph.D. research to work as an industry intern
ChE PhD student Tess Torregrosa wrote an editorial in Science Magazine on “Why I paused my Ph.D. research to work as an industry intern“, Tess was co-advised by Assistant Professors […]
Rapid Prototyping of Multilayer Microphysiological Systems
ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes, and PhD students were published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering for their research on “Rapid Prototyping of Multilayer Microphysiological Systems”. […]
Observing How Cells Interact
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes is isolating individual cell types to identify how they interact with their environment.
Materials and Microenvironments for Engineering the Intestinal Epithelium
ChE Professor & Associate Chair of Research Rebecca Carrier, Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes, and Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes research on “Materials and Microenvironments for Engineering the Intestinal Epithelium” was published […]
Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia
Assistant Professors Danielle Levac (Bouvé), Emily Zimmerman (Bouvé), Kristen Allison (Bouvé), Abigail Koppes (ChE), Sarah Ostadabbas (ECE), Jessica Oakes (BioE), and Associate Professor Eno Ebong (ChE) were awarded a 2020 ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (M2AP) Grant for “Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia: Facilitating Peer mentorship among female PIs leading active research labs”.
Watch scientists use electricity to herd skin cells, like sheep
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes’ research on bioelectricity and cell migration was featured in Science Magazine article “Watch scientists use electricity to herd skin cells, like sheep.”
AHA Grant to Explore the Innervation of Arterial Grafts
Associate Professor Guohao Dai from the Department of Bioengineering, Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes and Abigail Koppes from the Department of Chemical Engineering were awarded $200K from the American Heart Association (AHA) Innovative Project Award for “Bioengineer an autonomic neurovascular system to explore the innervation of arterial grafts”.
Abby Koppes Featured as a Segment on an NPR WHYY The Pulse Episode
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Abby Koppes was featured as a segment on an NPR WHYY The Pulse Episode to discuss her research platform “guts on a chip.”
Love of Science Leads to Prestigious Award
Minhal Ahmed, a fifth-year bioengineering student, was named the winner of the Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award for 2019, one of the highest honors a senior can receive.
Gut Health and Functional Foods Top Charts of 2019 Food Trends
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes was featured in the Forbes article "Gut Health and Functional Foods Top Charts of 2019 Food Trends".
Northeastern’s First Mitchell Scholar and More
Was recently one of only 12 students nationally selected as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship and the 2019 Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award—one of the highest honors a senior can receive.
Prof. Koppes at AIChE WIC
The AIChE Women’s Initiative Committee (WIC) hosted a full day symposium of female speakers at AIChE 2018 to highlight the significant contributions of women to the chemical engineering field, including ChE Assistant Professor Abby Koppes who presented on “Engineered Models of the Gut-Brain Axis”.
COE NeuroArt Winner
MBF Bioscience recently selected ChE PhD student Danielle Large as a NeuroArt winner and her work was featured on the cover image of the November 2018 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research.
Featured New PI – Abigail Koppes, Ph.D.
ChE Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes was nominated by the New PI community (new PI slack) of over 900 folks worldwide as “Featured new PI” for the month of June.
First International Conference on Biomaterials and Chemical Biology
Professors Ming Su and Art Coury of the Department of Chemical Engineering hosted at Northeastern University the first International Conference on Biomaterials and Chemical Biology. Collaborative research in these disciplines […]
Research Award: Gut-Brain Connection
Caroline Ghio, BS Chemical Engineering 2021, was awarded in fall 2017 an Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor (UGRCE) Award from Northeastern University. The Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships offers […]
Ahmed Wins Advanced Research/Creative Endeavor Award
Bioengineering student Minhal Ahmed ’19 was awarded the Undergraduate Advanced Research/Creative Endeavor Award for his research project entitled, “The Gut-Brain-Axis: Exploring the Interface Between Enteroendocrine Cells and the Enteric Nervous System”.
Puzan's Image Featured on Cover of Journal of Neuroscience Research
The work of ChE PhD student Marissa Puzan '19 and Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes is featured on the January 2018 cover of the Journal of Neuroscience Research. The image shows an activated […]
ChE Professors Win NIH Trailblazer New/Early Career Investigator Award
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes were awarded a $632K NIH grant to develop a microfluidic model of the ‘brain-in-the-gut’. The grant is a three-year Trailblazer New/Early Career Investigator R21 award with the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Caroline Ghio '21 Wins Undergraduate Research Creative Endeavors Award
Caroline Ghio, a second year chemical engineering undergraduate student, was awarded in fall 2017 an Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor (UGRCE) Award from Northeastern University. The Office of Undergraduate Research […]
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
Eno Ebong, Abby Koppes, & Ryan Koppes to Participate in Tufts CTSI Junior Faculty Career Development Forum
Eno Ebong, Prof. Abby Koppes, and Prof. Ryan Koppes were selected as three out of the 29 junior faculty members chosen to participate in the Tufts CTSI 2016-2017 Junior Faculty Research Career Development Forum.
ChE Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier Awarded $5M NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership Grant
ChE Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier (PI) and Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes (co-I) were awarded a $5M NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership grant entitled “GuMI: New In Vitro Platforms to Parse the Human Gut Epithelial-Microbiome-Immune Axis.”
FY17 TIER 1 Award Recipients
23 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY17 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing over $600K dollars of investment in research.
ChE Professors Abby Koppes and Ryan Koppes Featured in Boston Globe
Chemical Engineering professors Ryan and Abby Koppes were featured on the front page of the Boston Globe in a Valentine's Day themed article.
Electrical Stimuli of CNS
Che Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes was featured in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering for her analysis of the methods of electrical stimuli used to manipulate the central nervous system.