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Ronit Freeman Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows

Ronit Freeman inducted into the 2026 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows Ronit Freeman, associate professor in the department of applied physical sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).   Election to… Continue reading Ronit Freeman Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows

Interview with 2025 Faculty Mentoring Award Winner, Ronit Freeman

Interview with 2025 Faculty Mentoring Award Winner, Ronit Freeman Last month we announced that Dr. Freeman would be recognized for her outstanding mentorship with graduate students. The Office of the Provost at UNC published an article and interview with Ronit. Read about it here:   Ronit Freeman, associate professor in the Department of Applied Physical… Continue reading Interview with 2025 Faculty Mentoring Award Winner, Ronit Freeman

Welcome to Kenan Labs, Collaboratory!

North Carolina Collaboratory opens offices On March 22, campus leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on the Collaboratory’s new dedicated space on campus in the Kenan Labs. In 2016, N.C. General Assembly established the North Carolina Collaboratory to facilitate the dissemination of policy and research expertise of the UNC System and other universities across the… Continue reading Welcome to Kenan Labs, Collaboratory!

Freeman Recognized as a Rising Star in Chemistry

Ronit Freeman Earns 2023 Cottrell Scholar Award Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America’s first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 25 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2023 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each awardee receives $100,000.  “The future of science depends on innovation, diversity, and commitment to student success,”… Continue reading Freeman Recognized as a Rising Star in Chemistry

An explosion in the use of self-assembling macromolecules

Prof. Ronit Freeman was invited to guest edit the October 2022 edition of ACS Applied Biomaterials. Read about the great potential of such macromolecules with an emphasis on proteins, peptides, and DNA (or combinations thereof) to create functional biomaterials to regenerate damaged cells, serve as scaffolds for injected exogenous cells, or control the delivery and… Continue reading An explosion in the use of self-assembling macromolecules

Freeman Lab featured on Front Cover of Carolina scientific magazine

Ronit Freeman and the Freeman Lab were featured on the cover of Carolina Scientific, a quarterly research magazine, published by The University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill.  Carolina Scientific highlighted the Freeman Lab’s innovative and cost-effective GlycoGrip test strip, which is an alternative to the RT-PCR testing method used in laboratories to test for the presence of COVID-19… Continue reading Freeman Lab featured on Front Cover of Carolina scientific magazine

NSF Director features Freeman Lab’s COVID-19 testing breakthrough in NSF Quarterly Newsletter

The newly appointed NSF Director has featured the Freeman Lab in his first quarterly NSF newsletter. In this impactful piece, the NSF shines a light on how researchers at the Freeman Lab designed a rapid sensing COVID-19 test to meet the challenge of tracking variants, with a sugar-coated strip advances COVID-19 testing. Read the full… Continue reading NSF Director features Freeman Lab’s COVID-19 testing breakthrough in NSF Quarterly Newsletter

Freeman Lab lauded for catalyzing SARS-CoV-2 Research

Funded by RCSA’s swift COVID-19 response, the biomolecular engineering expertise at the Freeman Lab is being lauded as a catalyzing project. Resulting from this award, the Freeman Lab has “developed, patented, and quickly brought to mass-market production a glycopolymer-based lateral flow assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and its rapidly emerging variants”. The COVID-19 Initiative is a… Continue reading Freeman Lab lauded for catalyzing SARS-CoV-2 Research

Freeman Lab receives Harrington Scholar award for game-changing pulmonary fibrosis drug discovery

In collaboration with James Hagood, Ronit Freeman has received funding for new drug discovery for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis (PF). Currently, PF has no breakthrough treatment, and has an annual mortality on par with breast cancer in the US. This new funding is poised to help reverse the lung damage caused by PF. Read… Continue reading Freeman Lab receives Harrington Scholar award for game-changing pulmonary fibrosis drug discovery

Ronit Freeman Presents Keynote Address on Peptide-DNA at the Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics 2022 Annual Symposium

Ronit Freeman featured as a keynote speaker in the Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics 2022 Annual Symposium. Her talk focused on constructing complex nanostructures to mimic extra cellular environment. Learn more about the symposium here

new appointment: Ronit Freeman to Serve as Associate Editor of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Ronit Freeman becomes an Associate Editor for the award-winning WIREs (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) series. Each WIREs collection combines some of the most powerful features of encyclopedic reference works and review journals in an innovative online format. Dr. Freeman is excited to take on this new role! Read more here!