WRAL Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure WRAL’s Grace Hayba visited the Freeman Lab to sit down with Professor Ronit Freeman to learn about the new discovery in a way to potentially reverse the twist direction of amyloid plaques in the brain which are instrumental in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. … Continue reading WRAL Visits Freeman Lab to Explore Potential Alzheimer’s Cure
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Article: A Twist on Traditional Treatment
Imagine a future where the insidious advance of Alzheimer’s could be halted, or even reversed, not by a miraculous new drug, but by a groundbreaking way of delivering treatment right to the heart of the problem. This isn’t the plot of a science fiction novel but the tangible outcome of cutting-edge research by a team… Continue reading Article: A Twist on Traditional Treatment
New Paper – How Omicron Finds the Sweet Spot
New paper shows omicron relies more on sugars for infection Omicron and its sublineages remain a major public health concern owing to their high infectivity and antibody evasion. Perhaps the most challenging is that the sensitivity of some of the available rapid tests have been reduced against Omicron, compared to previous variants, forcing people to… Continue reading New Paper – How Omicron Finds the Sweet Spot
Kameryn Hinton, Freeman Lab Graduate Student, A Leader Both In and Out of the Lab
Student leaders in applied physical sciences help build graduate student community Since its launch as an official student organization in the fall of 2022, the Graduate Student Association (GSA) for the Department of Applied Physical Sciences (APS) has served as the liaison between students, faculty and APS leadership to represent and support the graduate student community. GSA… Continue reading Kameryn Hinton, Freeman Lab Graduate Student, A Leader Both In and Out of the Lab
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
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 income countries to overcome barriers to testing for SARS-CoV-2. The Freeman Lab’s next steps are requesting FDA approval for the test strips and partnering with a manufacturer to produce the… Continue reading Daily Tarheel Feature: Freeman Lab’s SARS-CoV-2 Test Strip Poised to Democratize testing
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 minutes. “We tapped into nature to reimagine viral diagnostics,” said Ronit Freeman, co-corresponding author of the paper. Freeman is an associate professor of applied physical sciences and biomedical engineering in the… Continue reading Turning the Tables on the virus with Low cost sugar-coated COVID-19 test strips
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. Read the full story to find out how she approaches multidisciplinary approaches to spark scientific innovation here!
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