Tufts University Chemical and Biological Engineering

08/25/2023

Research from Associate Professor Nikhil Nair's lab sets the stage for biomanufacturing of biofuels and other products with a very low carbon footprint.

Tufts researchers bioengineer yeast to feed on agricultural waste, setting the stage for biomanufacturing of biofuels and other products with a very low carbon footprint

09/30/2021

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has recognized Y.A. Liu, EG70, with the Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering. The award celebrates Liu’s outstanding professional achievement in advancing innovations in green process engineering for sustai...

04/01/2021

Welcome McDonnell Family Bridge Professor Milo Koretsky! He joins the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Education with an interest in helping faculty use research-based instructional practices to enable more equitable learning. http://bit.ly/2OQUh2G

01/05/2021

Assistant Professor Prashant Deshlahra of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has received a CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program supports outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to l...

02/21/2020

Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Christos Georgakis was honored in a special edition of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2SKZJUs

Tufts University Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Christos Georgakis was honored in a special edition of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2SKZJUs

01/15/2020

Since it’s made with milk’s essential proteins, Perfect Day’s product is just as nutritious as milk from cows, similar in taste and texture, and can yield cream, cheese, and every other dairy product, its creators maintain.

12/09/2019

Assistant Professor Nikhil Nair and Postdoctoral Fellow Josef Bober find that biomanufacturing can speed production of a low-glycemic sweetener - and may unlock its commercial potential. Read more:

Imagine a sugar that has only 38 percent of the calories of traditional table sugar, is safe for diabetics, and will not cause cavities. Now add that this dream sweetener is not an artificial substitute but a real sugar found in nature and it tastes like, well, sugar. You’d probably want to use th...

12/06/2019

Tufts University researchers have engineered insulin-producing cells that are activated by light. The light-switchable cells are designed to compensate for the lower insulin production or reduced insulin response found in diabetic individuals. Read more:

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (November 1, 2019) —Tufts University researchers have transplanted engineered pancreatic beta cells into diabetic mice, then caused the cells to produce more than two to three times the typical level of insulin by exposing them to light. The light-switchable cells are des...

11/27/2019

We're deeply saddened by the recent loss of Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos. A Distinguished Professor and the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability, Miretta was an incredible colleague and mentor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering for more than 25 years.

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, a Distinguished Professor and the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability in the Tufts University School of Engineering, was a world-renowned expert in the realm of chemical engineering. But at Tufts, where she was a professor for twenty-five....

08/08/2019

Congratulations to Assistant Professor James Van Deventer, who received an NIH Outstanding Investigator Award to establish a comprehensive discovery platform that could lead to new classes of enzyme inhibitors. Read more:

Enzyme inhibitors are precisely what they sound like: molecules that bind to an enzyme and slow down or stop the chemical reaction promoted by that enzyme. Inhibitors are critical to the study and treatment of a wide range of diseases – halting a specific biological process helps researchers bette...

07/15/2019

Congratulations to the faculty who received Tufts Innovates and Tufts Collaborates grants! The two programs support groundbreaking projects that bring researchers together from across the university.

In our department, Associate Professor Matt Panzer received a Tufts Innovates grant for his proposal titled "Brewing Up Enthusiasm: An Experiential Course in Coffee Engineering."

In order to foster ongoing collaboration and innovation in scholarship and teaching, the Office of the Provost sponsors two seed grant programs, Tufts Collaborates and Tufts Innovates. Through these programs, the university has supported more than 200 groundbreaking projects.