Category: Announcements

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!

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 Biomaterialia. The paper is authored by Jacqueline M. Godbe, Ronit Freeman, Jacob A. Lewis, Ivan R. Sasselli, M. Hussain Sangji, and Samuel I. Stupp. You can find the paper online… Continue reading New Paper in Acta Biomaterialia

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 the upcoming issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. If you’re curious to learn how we can guide cell behavior using programmable surfaces, you can find the paper online here!  

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 of the Innovate Carolina roadmap, which established today’s active network of people and programs that help innovators and ventures make their ideas work. The Freeman Lab will be among the groups… Continue reading UNC Innovation Showcase

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, and features a chapter written by  Freeman Lab graduate students Margaret Daly and Stephen Klawa, in collaboration with Dr. Freeman. Their chapter, “New Functions Emerging from Peptide-DNA Materials”, is the… Continue reading Freeman Lab Published in New RSC Book

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 other University leaders and innovators, Dr. Ronit Freeman will be speaking at the forum about her NSF-RAPID and RCSA grant research research into the transmission, detection, treatment, and prevention of… Continue reading Ronit Freeman to Speak at the State of Innovation Forum

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 spikes, have been featured on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences website. You can read the article here. Dr Freeman will be collaborating with Rommie Amaro, professor of chemistry… Continue reading Molecular approaches to detect and mitigate COVID-19

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 this Summer 2020! Jade Dang will be using the award to explore fluorescent-based methods in probing the properties of peptide-DNA and catalytic material, while Dingyuan Liu will be tracking cell… Continue reading Freeman Lab Undergraduates Receive Summer Award for Research-Intensive Courses (SARIC)

Jade Dang’s Will Froelich Fellowship Proposal Approved

We are excited to announce that Freeman Lab Undergraduate Jade Dang, a recipient of the Will Froelich Honors Fellowship, has had her fellowship proposal approved! Jade will be spending the coming summer continuing her research in the Freeman Lab, using fluorescent-based methods to probe the properties of peptide-DNA and catalytic material. The Will Froelich Honors… Continue reading Jade Dang’s Will Froelich Fellowship Proposal Approved

Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19

The Freeman Lab is happy to announce that we have received funding via two Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) grants to investigate the COVID-19 virus. The first of these grants, titled “Pan-Covid-19 MultiValent Binders (MVBs) to Block Virus Entry”, was submitted with Rommie Amaro of the University of California and Carlos Simmerling of Stony… Continue reading Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19

Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant

The Freeman Lab is part of a multidisciplinary team that has been awarded an NSF RAPID grant, to explore the critical role of airway mucus in the transmission, infection, and spread of the COVID-19 virus. You can read more about this award at the Innovate Carolina website here.  While the world waits for a vaccine… Continue reading Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant