Category: Awards

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

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

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

Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC

We are thrilled to announce that Freeman Lab PhD candidate Maggie Daly has won first place in the Biomaterials category for her poster presentation at the 7th Annual Triangle Student Research Competition (TSRC).  TSRC is a poster session and networking event for students in the Research Triangle to showcase their research, practice for national conferences, and… Continue reading Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC

Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship

We are excited to announce that Freeman Lab Ph.D. candidate Maggie Daly has been selected for the 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Each year NSF recognizes outstanding graduate students in STEM fields of study who “have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers, early in their career.” Maggie is… Continue reading Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship

Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award

The Freeman Lab is thrilled to announce that our own Hannah Wilkins, a junior at the University of North Carolina in the Chancellor’s Science scholar program, has won the 3rd Place Overall Poster Award at this year’s Summer Undergraduate Program Symposium. UNC’s Summer Undergraduate Program is an opportunity for minority scholars to get a taste… Continue reading Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award