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The following research will be presented during the 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, held October 8th - 12th in San Diego, CA: “Live-cell profiling of cancer specific Src kinase activity using exogenous peptide probes” will be presented by Terry Chen on Saturday, October 11th, 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM.

Congratulations to Biomedical Engineering PhD students Liz Medvedeva and Ted Rock on passing their oral qualifier exam with honors. Well done!

Congratulations to Colin Skeen! His first-author paper entitled “Standardized droplet preamplification method for downstream circulating cell-free DNA analysis” was accepted for publication in BioTechniques. This paper reports the development of a standardized ddPCR protocol for robust pre-PCR enrichment of liquid biopsy samples.

We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest PhD students. Liz Medvedeva and Ted Rock join us after completing a series of rotations through the BME program.

A new collaborative project led by Prof. Pratt and Prof. Khalil is one of five multidisciplinary proposals selected to receive a Dean’s Catalyst Award from the BU College of Engineering. These two-year awards are designed to promote innovative, cross-disciplinary research with strong potential to secure future external funding.

Congratulations to Genesis Cely on receiving summer research funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program!

The following research will be presented during the 2025 US HUPO (US Human Proteome Organization) Conference, held February 22nd - 26th in Philadelphia, PA: “Measuring Methyltransferase Activity using Cell-Deliverable Affinity-Based Peptide Probes (cAfBPs)” will be presented by Loran Gliford on Tuesday, February 25th, 4:30-6:00 PM.

We are excited to host Andrés Quiñones-Molina (BSEng Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh) for a rotation in the Pratt Lab. We look forward to working together on some exciting science!

Congratulations to Colin Skeen for his recent paper submission! His work presents a standardized pre-PCR enrichment method to improve mutation profiling of circulating cell-free DNA. The manuscript is currently available as a preprint on bioRxiv.

Congratulations to Sanaya Tonsekar and Terry Chen on receiving funding for Spring semester from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program! At the conclusion of the semester, both will present their research at the BU Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.