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Robert Baulsir, a senior mechanical engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Nashville District Electrical Mechanical Section since 2002, is the District Employee of the Month for June 2013.
As part of Undergraduate Research Week, the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted its annual research poster competition on April 9, 2014.
Cockrell School of Engineering students were honored at a reception held
before the annual Honors Day celebration.
A method of mass-producing disease-fighting antibodies entirely within bacteria has been developed by a research group at The University of Texas at Austin. The group led by Dr. George Georgiou developed the new antibody-production approach to improve upon processes used previously to identify new drugs for arthritis, cancer and other diseases. The new approach developed in collaboration with Dr. Brent Iverson in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is faster and has other advantages.
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Postdoctoral student Yariv Mazor (on the right), lead author of the journal article, engineered antibodies to an anthrax toxin called PA. Graduate student Thomas Van Blarcom (on the left), then used a method called APEx, co-developed by Georgiou and Iverson’s lab, to identify the bacteria-bound antibodies that attached best to the PA. Van Blarcom then grew large numbers of those bacteria to begin refining the steps needed for mass-scale production of promising therapeutic antibodies.