Center for Advanced Technology awards support Cornell life science faculty and research associates to develop biotechnologies with commercial potential.
Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell scientists have shown that roundworms live longer bathed in their own secretions. Understanding this chemical model, might help humans live longer.
William Dichtel, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has a 2010 Nontenured Faculty Award from 3M that will provide $15,000 per year toward research for up to three years. (March 10, 2010)
Cornell researchers describe experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens, findings that could aid beekeepers in their struggle to keep honeybee colonies healthy.
Cornell's Michael Shuler has received National Institutes of Health funding to make 3-D chips with living cells and tissues that model the structure and function of human organs. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Scientists at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine are partnered with the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance healing techniques and technologies for animals and humans.
Julius Lucks, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Marco Seandel, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology in surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, are NIH "New Innovators."