News Releases

University of Maryland iGEM team, co-advised by IBBR Fellow, Dr. Edward Eisenstein, brings home a gold medal for their innovative plastic waste bioremediation and degradation measurement project

Submitted by Timna Wyckoff on November 30, 2018 - 08:45

It takes about 450 years for a plastic bottle to break down in nature, but with the UMD “PETNET” team’s new technology, this time could potentially be cut to as little as 2 weeks.  The team also developed an efficient and economical system to measure degradation.

IBBR research discovery could be crucial to development of cross-species Ebola vaccines and treatments

Submitted by Vicki Buckholz on October 16, 2018 - 13:04
Artist rendering:  Ebola virus

The recent cases of Ebola virus infection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are an alarming reminder of the images and statistics that brought the disease to the forefront of public concern during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa.

IBBR Receives $1.2M NIH Award to Develop 3D Modeling Tool That Could Lead to New Immunotherapies

Submitted by Vicki Buckholz on October 3, 2018 - 10:21
DMF5 TCR, shown in complex with  its target, has been in clinical trials for melanoma immunotherapy.  Pierce and collaborators redesigned this TCR  to improve its tumor targeting.

New computational tool supports the engineering and development of cancer immunotherapies

Harnessing viral enzymes to combat bacterial infections in dairy cows

Submitted by Vicki Buckholz on October 1, 2018 - 15:30

When most of us think about viruses and bacteria, we envision germs that make people sick. But, Dr. Daniel Nelson, IBBR Fellow and Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maryland College Park, studies viruses that may end up making us well -- by killing disease-causing bacteria.

IBBR Doctoral Candidate, Tsega Solomon, Travels to Dublin to Present Protein Folding Research

Submitted by Vicki Buckholz on August 30, 2018 - 10:15

Tsega Solomon, a doctoral candidate in Dr. John Orban’s laboratory at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), attended the XXVIII International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, ICMRBS, at the University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, on August 19-24, 2018.