Lab Members Attend CUBES Spring Review Meeting
News
Karen McDonald elected AIChE Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. McDonald for being elected as a fellow in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in recognition of her professional accomplishments, contributions and service in chemical engineering. https://che.engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-mcdonald-elected-aiche-fellow
U.S. patent issued “Fusion proteins for treating inflammatory diseases.”
Congratulations to Karen, lab alumnus Kalimuthu Karuppanan, and collaborator Dr. Carroll E. Cross for this achievement! Patent No.: US 10,918,703 B2.
Discover Magazine covers the lab’s research as a part of CUBES
Aria Alamalhodaei, Discover Magazine, “Astronauts Get Sick, Too. Here’s the Tech That Could Grow Medicine on Mars”, February 9, 2021.
The lab is highlighted in “To Boldly Go Where No Pharma Has Gone Before”
Alex Pearlman, NeoLife, “To Boldly Go Where No Pharma Has Gone Before”, January 14, 2021.
Making Proteins for Serological Tests
Work by the McDonald-Nandi lab was highlighted in Engineering Progress, Fall 2020
UC Davis News covers BioMADE
Noah Pflueger-Peters writes an article published in UC Davis News titled, “UC Davis joins new $274.5M bioindustrial manufacturing center,” about the new multi-institution center, the Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE). Dr McDonald leads the UC Davis site.
NSF Center grant awarded to UC Davis
The lab is included in a recent National Science Foundation Center grant awarded to UC Davis for open-access cultivated meat research to establishes Research, Training in Cultivated Meat: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-establishes-research-training-cultivated-meat
Guest Editors for Recombinant Protein 2.0
Somen and Karen are serving as Guest Editors for special issue on Recombinant Proteins 2.0 are currently open for articles to be published by Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2020. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/recombinant_proteins_2
The Pharmaceutical Journal covers ‘drugs in space’
Megan Tatum writes an article that includes the lab’s research in The Pharmaceutical Journal, A Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publication, titled, “Drugs in Space: the pharmacy orbiting the Earth.”