For the 4th year in a row, the team earned Gold Standing at the competition. This year they brought home the Best Poster prize!”
ABSTRACT: The increasing demand, cost escalation and environmental impact of raw materials for industrial chemicals, materials, and energy production impel the development of sustainable strategies for resource utilization. Such sustainable resource demand spurred investigation for the utilization of agricultural and forestry wastes and by-products. The emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy reduced most of the traditional uses of rendered animal meals such as blood meal, meat, and bone meal as animal feed, effectively making it an industrial waste.
ABSTRACT: The current drug development process is both very slow (15 year average) and costly ($1.5B/drug average). Despite this hefty investment, inefficiencies in the drug screening process routinely result in the withdrawal of drugs from the market due to serious toxicities and adverse cardiovascular effects. Safety screen assessments performed on cell cultures and animal models do not always correlate with clinical risk.
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Paul Chen, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Frank Gu, has been awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His research involves the application of gold nano-particles for detection and identification of pathogens that cause infectious disease.