Research Theme
Health
Innovation springs from collaboration across a wide range of fields, from life sciences and engineering to mathematics and the humanities. These breakthroughs emerge from thriving partnerships with industry, universities, and NGOs worldwide.
Faculty at Northeastern are developing innovations to:
- Better diagnose cancer and find cures to infectious diseases of the developing world
- Understand the roots of health and illness in the microbiome and by seeing into the molecular processes of living systems
- Create new drugs and drug-delivery systems, including nanotechnology-based cancer therapies and biopharmaceuticals
- Create safe, effective pain-killers as alternatives to opioids
Institutes
Centers
Antimicrobial Discovery Center (ADC)
Director: Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor The mission of the Center is to translate basic science discoveries into novel antimicrobial…
Center for Drug Discovery (CDD)
Director: Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Buoyed by nearly $10 million in established grants, the…
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine (CPBN)
Director: Vladmir P. Torchilin, Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences The Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine is a recently organized…
Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC)
Director: Lucy Williams, Professor of Law With Professor Lucy Williams at the helm, the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and…
Last Updated on August 1, 2023