When Ben Orlando delivered a 2019 research talk at MSU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, it set the stage for a collaborative breakthrough that was decades in the making. In the lecture hall that day was Professor Emeritus Lee Kroos, who just this September celebrated his retirement from MSU after a pioneering career of …
Michigan State University chemist Gary Blanchard has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his cutting-edge exploration of the piezoelectric effect in liquids. This award will provide $450,000 over three years and build upon an unprecedented discovery first reported by Blanchard and former doctoral student Md Iqbal Hossain in early 2023. Piezoelectric materials generate electric charge under …
Michigan State University Professor Xuefei Huang and his team have developed a new vaccine candidate to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria, potentially improving the fight against deadly infections. Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments. It’s estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections killed more than 1 million people worldwide in 2019, …
Seven faculty elected as 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) From distinguished contributions in global fisheries ecology to researching the impact of puberty on the adolescent brain, Michigan State University researchers are making a difference in Michigan and around the globe — and they are being honored for …
This is the story of how a fledgling biotech company with its origins in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Chemistry leveraged nearly every facet of the MSU Innovation Center ecosystem to move from the barest beginnings of drug discovery to a venture capital-funded startup. Business Connect, MSU Technologies, Spartan Innovations, and Red Cedar …
