Clifford P. Brangwynne, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has just been named a Director’s New Innovator by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in a press release issued today. The New Innovator award initiative, established in 2007, is designed specifically to support unusually creative new investigators with highly innovative research ideas who are within 10 years of their terminal degree, and is accompanied by a $1.5M research award. The NIH Di
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Clifford P. Brangwynne, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was named a Searle Scholar for 2012 on April 13. Fifteen recently-appointed assistant professors in the chemical and biological sciences nationwide were selected for this honor from a pool of 186 researchers nominated by 125 institutions. The Searle Scholars Program will support Cliff's research on nucleolar function in cell growth control through a $300,000 grant over the next three years.
Clifford P. Brangwynne, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has received a three-year Program Research Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), on “RNA Helicases in RNA/Protein Body Assembly and Function: A Multi-scale Approach”. The grant will support studies of sub-cellular compartments which consist of assemblies of RNA and proteins, and how they carry out their biological functions. Brangwynne’s project team includes Ch
The November 25 issue of Science magazine contains a five-segment news focus section on “Mysteries of the Cell”, with each segment devoted to a particular unsolved mystery. One of the segments, entitled “How Does the Cell Position Its Proteins?”, contains excerpts from an interview with Clifford Brangwynne, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, discussing his recent work: “this cytoplasmic fluid is actually highly structured, which
Mark P. Brynildsen and Clifford P. Brangwynne will join the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering as Assistant Professors during the coming academic year. Each will expand and strengthen the department’s research portfolio in biological engineering.
Brynildsen, who will start in September 2010 following a postdoctoral appointment in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, specializes in host-pathogen interactions, bacterial persistence, and biofilms.
Brangwynne, who will
