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 Lab in the News
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
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!
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