Targeted therapy treatments – with a twist!
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have developed a therapeutic approach that harnesses helical amyloid fibers designed to untwist and release drugs in response to body temperature, according
Freeman Lab in the News
All That Glitters – Sensors From the Lab to Field
Translating sensors from the lab benchtop to a readily available point-of-need setting is desirable for many fields, including medicine, agriculture, and industry. However, this transition
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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