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How UNC inventor Otto Zhou helped reinvent X-ray imaging
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (487+ words) The UNC Inventor of the Year discusses the collaborations, discoveries and commercialization journey behind imaging technologies now used in medicine, dentistry and security screening. In May 2026, the'UNC Office of Technology Commercialization'recognized Zhou as the UNC Inventor of the Year for…...
Catalyzing new reactions " and new projects
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (465+ words) A transformational Brown Investigator Award will help chemistry professor Jillian Dempsey study how to harness light to make new molecules. She is the first awardee at UNC-Chapel Hill. Jillian Dempsey has made an illustrious career studying how to harness and…...
Chemistry student uses machine learning to transform gene therapy production
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (691+ words) Ph. D. student Kelvin Idanwekhai is using machine learning to transform how viruses " the microscopic couriers of genetic medicine " are purified, making the process faster, cheaper and more precise. The future of gene therapy may not lie in the lab bench…...
Kevin Weeks named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (421+ words) This is a nice recognition of all our work and the wonderful creativity of our students and trainees," he said. None of the projects that ultimately led to patents started off as "let's make a patent.' They started as "let's…...
College graduate brings "forever chemicals" documentary to campus
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (478+ words) Eli Yetter-Bowman, who worked on their film "Gen X" for nearly a decade, will screen it at Carolina Jan. 14. Yetter-Bowman graduated in 2018 with a philosophy major and a chemistry minor. Eight years ago, Eli Yetter-Bowman was taking chemistry classes at…...