Team wins grant to help diagnose sepsis
Lea Michel, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, was awarded a two-year R21 grant ($417,032) from NIH NIAID for the project “Using nano pocket membranes to capture bacterial outer membrane vesicles from biofluids.” Michel is PI of the grant, along with Tom Gaborski, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Co-PI Anthony Pietropaoli from the University of Rochester. The team will create a novel purification technology to capture bacterial vesicles for the purpose of diagnosing sepsis in the early stages.
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