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
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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,
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
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
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
Ronit Freeman Featured as speaker for the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Interest Group Seminar at NC State
Dr. Ronit Freeman discussed the most recent research discoveries made by the Freeman Lab and how her approach to planning research, which involves detailed stakeholder
Ronit Freeman Receives the Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award, 2021
Ronit Freeman has been awarded the Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award for 2021. As a recipient of one of the 24 individual awards of $55,000, Freeman
Daily Tarheel Feature: Freeman Lab’s SARS-CoV-2 Test Strip Poised to Democratize testing
The Freeman Lab unveils the new GlycoGrip, a cost-effective sugar-coated COVID-19 testing strip. It’s low-cost, long shelf-life proposition positions it perfectly for low and middle
Turning the Tables on the virus with Low cost sugar-coated COVID-19 test strips
The Freeman Lab and Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a low-cost test strip that uses sugar to detect COVID-19 within
Innovator Q&A: Improving Health Outcomes with Convergent Sciences
Ronit Freeman sat down with Innovate Carolina to discuss the intersection between scientific innovation, entrepreneurship, research and teaching, and how collaboration across disciplines propels discovery.
Sugar-coated COVID-19 test takes advantage of coronavirus’ sweet tooth
Researchers in the Freeman Lab take advantage of the virus’s sweet tooth by creating a sugar-coated COVID-19 test strip. This test strip has been effective
Freeman and Hagood labs awarded grant by Eshelman Institute for Innovation
The Freeman Lab is excited to announce a new cross-campus grant awarded by the Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue research in lung fibrosis. Dr.
New Paper in Acta Biomaterialia
A new paper titled “Hydrogen Bonding Stiffens Peptide Amphiphile Supramolecular Filaments by Aza-Glycine Residues” is due to be published in the upcoming issue of Acta
COVID-19 Sensing Paper in ACS Sensors
A new paper from the Freeman Lab, titled “Catching COVID: Engineering Peptide-Modified Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensors for SARS-CoV-2”, is due to be published in the
New Paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
A new paper from the Freeman Lab, titled “A Programmable Toolkit to Dynamically Signal Cells Using Peptide Strand Displacement”, is due to be published in
UNC Innovation Showcase
On Wednesday, April 14th, UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger and other community leaders will kick off a special celebration: the 10-year anniversary
Freeman Lab Published in New RSC Book
The Freeman Lab has contributed to a new book published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Peptide-Based Biomaterials is the latest in RSC’s Soft Matter Series,
Ronit Freeman to Speak at the State of Innovation Forum
This week, at 9am EST on Wednesday, October 7, Innovate Carolina will be hosting their annual State of Innovation Forum online via Zoom. Along with
Molecular approaches to detect and mitigate COVID-19
Dr. Ronit Freeman’s proposals for the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s COVID-19 Initiative, and her subsequent awards to research ways to capture and disable coronavirus
Freeman Lab Undergraduates Receive Summer Award for Research-Intensive Courses (SARIC)
We are happy to announce that two Undergraduates working in the Freeman Lab have received the Summer Award for Research-Intensive Courses (SARIC) for Undergraduate research