Michael Pollastri

In a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion, North­eastern alumnus Ken Stuart pre­sented research from the Seattle Bio­med­ical Research Insti­tute, which he founded in 1976 to tackle global infec­tious diseases.

Chem­istry and chem­ical biology pro­fessor Michael Pol­lastri announced the launch of the Inte­grated Ini­tia­tive in Global Health at his Col­lege of Sci­ence Col­lo­quium talk last Friday.

Michael Pol­lastri, asso­ciate pro­fessor of chem­istry, dis­cusses the mag­ni­tude of the problem sur­rounding neglected trop­ical dis­eases and why the global com­mu­nity needs to take notice.

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity and the Flatley Dis­covery Lab, a Boston-​​based inde­pen­dent non­profit orga­ni­za­tion, have joined forces to develop a cure for cystic fibrosis.

Chem­istry pro­fessor Michael Pol­lastri col­lab­o­rates with phar­ma­ceu­tical com­pany and researchers in Spain to iden­tify existing drugs that could be mod­i­fied to stop a scourge of sub-​​Saharan Africa.

An inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers col­lab­o­rated with health experts in Kenya to fight neglected trop­ical diseases.

Mem­bers of the North­eastern com­mu­nity share their mem­o­ries of the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

A pro­fessor and his team of chem­istry stu­dents are com­mitted to dis­cov­ering cures for dis­eases that affect the world’s poor.