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IITRI Helps Develop COVID-19 Therapy Scheduled to Advance to Clinical Trial
Since fall 2020 IIT Research Institute (IITRI) has performed preclinical efficacy and safety studies of several dozen novel agents designed to prevent or treat COVID-19—among them, an inhaled...
Informing Agricultural Practices Through Computational Genomics
TRANSCRIPT Dakota Bunn (Ph.D. BIOL Candidate): My name is Dakota Bunn, and I am a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the biology program. The research I'm working on right now is involving the western...
BioCAT Advances Research on Muscle Disease, COVID-19, and More with Federal Funding Renewal
A team of researchers led by Professor of Biology and Physics Thomas Irving has received an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue operating the Biophysics Collaborative...
Called to Medicine
Sana Basheer is bound for a career in medicine—this much she knows. What she will specialize in after she heads to medical school at the University of Chicago on a full scholarship this fall remains...
New Research by Biology Ph.D. Student Providing Insights into the Habits of Western Bean Cutworm
New research from Illinois Institute of Technology biology Ph.D. student Dakota Bunn (Ph.D. BIOL Candidate) is providing insight into the habits of the western bean cutworm, a pest to corn and dry...
Promising New COVID-19 Treatment in Development at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
A new COVID-19 treatment in early stages of development at Illinois Institute of Technology—an inhaled therapy called CROWNase—shows the potential to limit COVID-19 infection. The treatment is patent...
Building Blocks of Human Bone Presented in New Study
Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology have partnered with an international team of scientists to uncover the fundamental structure for the development of bone. The study authors from the...
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Researcher Part of International Team That Has Uncovered Building Block of Human Bone
Chicago, IL — October 8, 2020 — Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) have partnered with an international team of scientists to uncover the fundamental structure for the...
New Research on Collagen Could Influence Treatment of COVID-19
New research from Joseph Orgel, a professor of biology and biomedical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, is advancing the understanding of the role of collagen, the major constructive...