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Rice University’s Scott Solomon, a biologist, science communicator and teaching professor in the Department of Biosciences. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University.
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Biologist Scott Solomon Recognized as Piper Professor

Rice University’s Scott Solomon, a biologist, science communicator and teaching professor in the Department of Biosciences, has been named a 2025 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, one of the most prestigious accolades awarded to educators in Texas. The award honors professors for exceptional teaching and service to students and is given annually to 10 faculty members from colleges and universities across the state. Each recipient receives a $5,000 honorarium and a place in the distinguished roster of Piper Professors, which…

Yuze “Alice” Sun, an electrical engineering professor, has been elected to The University of Texas at Arlington’sAcademy of Distinguished Researchersfor her contributions to technologies critical to health care, environmental monitoring and national defense.The Academy of Distinguished Researchers is the most prestigious research and scholarship award at UT Arlington. It is reserved for faculty who have made substantial contributions to research and have achieved significant recognition in their respective fields. Credit: UTA
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Sun Receives UTA’s Top Research Award for Innovation

Electrical engineering Professor Yuze “Alice” Sun joins elite group of faculty, honored for research that improves lives and strengthens national security Yuze “Alice” Sun, an electrical engineering professor, has been elected to The University of Texas at Arlington’s Academy of Distinguished Researchers for her contributions to technologies critical to health care, environmental monitoring and national defense. “Dr. Sun is a trailblazer in multidisciplinary research whose transformative advancements have significantly impacted devices we rely on every day to diagnose and treat disease, communicate…

The American Gastroenterological Association selects 74 recipients to receive $2.4 million in research funding through the annualAGA Research Foundation Awards Program. Credit: AGA
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AGA Foundation Awards $2.4M for Digestive Health Research

AGA adds $400,000 in pilot awards to support researchers facing federal funding cuts. The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is proud to announce the selection of 74 recipients to receive $2.4 million in research funding through the annual AGA Research Foundation Awards Program. AGA also announces today the addition of 10 pilot grants, totaling $400,000 in funding, to the 2026 awards portfolio to ensure that scientific discovery continues despite federal funding cuts. “Since we established the AGA Research Foundation in 1984, AGA…

UMass Amherst Scientists Lead the Way At CERN Credit: UMass Amherst
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UMass Amherst Physicists Win Breakthrough Prize in Physics

The ‘Oscars of science’ goes to team probing the origins of the universe to reveal its most fundamental constituents and their interactions Scientists from UMass Amherst are among the researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb. Among the laureates are 36 scientists from the UMass Amherst research team, including 14 Ph.D. students, who produced results based on…

The TCT®2025 Career Achievement Award will be presented to Stephan Windecker, MD, during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics®(TCT®), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation®(CRF®). TCT®will take place October 25-28, 2025, in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center. Credit: CRF
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Stephan Windecker, MD, Receives TCT 2025 Career Award

World-renowned cardiologist to be honored for extraordinary contributions to interventional cardiology The TCT® 2025 Career Achievement Award will be presented to Stephan Windecker, MD, during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics® (TCT®), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation® (CRF®). TCT® will take place October 25-28, 2025, in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center. The award is given each year to an outstanding individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of interventional cardiology and has transformed cardiovascular care…

Part of the members of the ATLAS collaboration in front of the ATLAS experiment mural (1:3 scale) and ATLAS control room located at CERN, 100 meters above the experiment cavern. Credit: M. Struik/CERN
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Mainz Physicists Win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb. The prize was awarded during a ceremony of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation held in Los Angeles on 5 April. ATLAS is one of the largest and most complex scientific instruments ever built. As a general-purpose particle detector measuring…

Vasumitra "Vasu" Rao, M.S., Ph.D. Candidate Credit: Vasumitra "Vasu" Rao
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$100K Fellowship Grant Awarded to U of M’s Vasu Rao

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Vasumitra “Vasu” Rao, M.S., Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering program at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), as the 2025 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant recipient. Rao’s innovative work at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), laboratory automation and microbiology exemplifies SLAS’s mission to support emerging leaders in quantitative biosciences through the grant. The awarded funding will enable Rao to continue his research under advisor…

Dr. Leanne Redman is associate executive director for scientific education and director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Pennington Biomedical. In addition, she holds the LPFA Endowed Professorship and leads the Reproductive Endocrinology and Women's Health Laboratory. Credit: PBRC
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Dr. Leanne Redman Receives E.V. McCollum Award for Nutrition

Annual award given to a researcher perceived as a major creative force, actively generating new concepts in nutrition The American Society for Nutrition, or ASN, and the ASN Foundation announced the distinguished recipients of the 2025 National Scientific Achievement Awards today. Recognizing outstanding contributions and pioneering advancements in the field of nutrition, these awards serve as a testament to excellence and innovation. Among the honorees is Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Dr. Leanne Redman, who received the E. V. McCollum Award…

Research at the University of Tennessee is looking to turning scrap wood into a metal alternative. Credit: University of Tennessee
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Turning Wood Waste Into Sustainable Metal Alternative

Imagine if all the wood waste left over from home construction zones, furniture manufacturing, landscaping projects, or lumber mills could be turned into a substance as strong as steel. That is the goal of a research project at the University of Tennessee led by Art Ragauskas, UT-ORNL governor’s chair for biorefining and acting department head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The project—Waste Upcycling for Defense (WUD)—received a $2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),…

Jennifer L. West, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, has won the 2025 Pierre Galletti Award, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s highest honor. Credit: Todd Wright, UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Jennifer West Receives AIMBE’s 2025 Pierre Galletti Award

West receives AIMBE’s highest honor for transformative contributions to biomedical engineering Jennifer L. West, Dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Saunders Family Professor of Engineering, has been awarded the 2025 Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). West is recognized for her “innovative research in biomaterials and nanomedicine, her leadership in the field, and her dedication to mentoring the next generation of biomedical…

Brian Brown, PhD, Director of the Icahn Genomics Institute at Mount Sinai, has been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows for his pioneering contributions to gene therapy and functional genomics, recognized as one of the highest honors in medical and biological engineering. Credit: Mount Sinai Health System
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Brian Brown, Ph.D., Joins AIMBE College for Gene Therapy Breakthroughs

Brian Brown, PhD, Director of the Icahn Genomics Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was honored for his seminal work in gene therapy and functional genomics, which has helped transform the fields and contributed to key advancements in medicine and biotechnology. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is one of the highest professional distinctions in the…

2025 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year Dr. William Murphy, Texas A&M University Credit: Jason Nitsch/Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
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Texas A&M’s William Murphy Named 2025 SEC Professor of the Year

Dr. William Murphy, a researcher at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named the 2025 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Professor of the Year. Murphy is a National Academy of Sciences member and the James E. Womack University Professor of Genetics in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences. He is also a Texas A&M University System Regents Professor and was recently appointed to lead a new Center for Comparative Genomics in animal genetics at Texas A&M….

Chris Lim, PhD, is an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Image Credit: University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
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$1.2M Grant to Explore Neighborhood Impact on Cancer Risk

A grant from the American Cancer Society will allow researchers to develop a comprehensive picture of the factors that may contribute to increased cancer risk in some neighborhoods. A University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health researcher has received a $1.2 million grant from the American Cancer Society to evaluate potential links between the neighborhood environment and cancer risk. “The study will give us a much more complex look at the many factors that may contribute to increased…

Dr Abed Alaswad, Image Credit: Aston University
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University Secures £500K for Sustainability in Jordan, Thailand, and Philippines

An Aston University researcher has secured more than half a million pounds funding to train early career researchers to tackle sustainability challenges in their home countries. The University will host nine early career academics for 12 months as part of the International Science Partnership Fund (ISPF) research fellowship programme. Fellows from Jordan will focus on energy systems, those from Thailand will work on sustainable plastics and green solvents and researchers from the Philippines will specialise in sustainability assessments. The £540,000…

Awarded by the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the prize recognizes groundbreaking innovations with the potential for real-world impact.Dr. Liu shares the award as co-principal investigator alongsideJames Chelikowsky, a professor of physics and chemical engineering at UT Austin.“Our research will make the U.S. more competitive in the world,” Liu said. “We lag behind many other countries in magnet research even though magnets are crucial components in everyday devices like laptops, tablets, smartphones and robotics, as well as renewable technologies such as wind turbines and electric vehicles. These devices rely heavily on the use of rare-earth elements that are expensive and environmentally destructive to extract. Our research focuses on using more abundant elements that can be sourced domestically with less environmental damage.” Image Credit: UTA
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UTA Team Wins Award for Key US Magnet Technology

Physics professor J. Ping Liu helps boost nation’s energy security and advance toward a world-class magnet research hub University of Texas at Arlington physics Professor J. Ping Liu has won the 2025 Hill Prize in Physical Sciences for pioneering new ways to design magnets that power high-tech devices. Awarded by the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the prize recognizes groundbreaking innovations with the potential for real-world impact. Dr. Liu shares the award as co-principal…

Ivelin Georgiev, PhD, professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, director of theVanderbilt Center for Computational Microbiology and Immunology, and the project principal investigator. Image Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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VUMC Advances AI Technology for Antibody Discovery

An ambitious project led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators aims to use artificial intelligence technologies to generate antibody therapies against any antigen target of interest. VUMC has been awarded up to $30 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to build a massive antibody-antigen atlas, develop AI-based algorithms to engineer antigen-specific antibodies, and apply the AI technology to identify and develop potential therapeutic antibodies. ARPA-H is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human…

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