UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan develops rapid diagnostic test for virus
Excerpt from UMBC NEWS | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
JUNE 9, 2020 11:23 AM
MEGAN HANKS

A team led by UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan has developed an experimental diagnostic test to rapidly detect the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, potentially as early as the first day of infection. Researchers designed the test to show results visually, through a color change visible with the naked eye when the virus is present. Unlike other tests, it does not require advanced laboratory techniques or tools. The American Chemical Society recently published their paper on the technique in the journal ACS Nano. 

Pan is both a professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC and professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine and pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). His co-authors included UMSOM Pan Lab researchers Parikshit Moitra and Maha Alafeef, and UMBC faculty research assistant Ketan Dighe. The work also included Matthew B. Frieman, a UMSOM faculty member from the Virology Institute. 

From sample to results in ten minutes


Like some other diagnostic tests, this one starts with a nasal swab or saliva sample. After the sample is retrieved, a technician extracts RNA from it through a 10-minute process. This process then uses a biosensor molecule attached to gold nanoparticles to detect a particular protein unique to the virus. When the molecule attaches to the protein, the gold nanoparticles respond by causing a chemical used in the test to turn blue.

As recent media reports have revealed, current tests that are used to diagnose COVID-19 are not always reliable, with high rates of false negatives and false positives. Pan hopes the design of this new diagnostic test will avoid some of these pitfalls. 

“Many of the diagnostic tests currently on the market cannot detect the virus until several days after infection. For this reason, they have a significant rate of false negative results,” he explains. A test that can detect the presence of the virus sooner after infection would avoid this issue.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MAY 18, 2020 11:30 AM
SARAH HANSEN

Excerpt from "Graduating CNMS Scholars carry on a commitment to support women in STEM"

UMBC has made great strides in increasing its number of women faculty members in STEM through the ADVANCE program. Now, through the CNMS Scholars Program, these women are serving as mentors to the next generation of scientists and engineers committed to the advancement of women in STEM. The CNMS Scholars program is specifically designed to boost the representation of women in STEM fields that haven’t reached gender parity, from physics and bioinformatics to chemical engineering.

This spring, five women will graduate from UMBC as CNMS Scholars, including Olivia Norman ’20, physics, and Jada Damond ’20, chemical engineering. ...

Damond worked with Jennie Leach, an associate professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering (CBEE), and a member of UMBC’s 4th ADVANCE cohort.

CNMS Scholar Jada Damond is also heading to an exceptional Ph.D. program—UMBC’s program in environmental engineering. This offers her a chance to continue research she is committed to moving forward. 

Through the CNMS Scholars program, Damond realized the value of mentorship and a community of support. “I gained a really powerful network, and I learned a lot more about the opportunities the campus has to offer,” she shares. In particular, she’s grateful to her program mentor, Jennie Leach, who has offered her both professional and personal support. 

“Dr. Leach facilitated my transition to UMBC’s Ph.D. program by offering advice about the program and sharing her own experiences with getting a Ph.D.,” Damond says.

“It’s been really fun to know Jada first as a sophomore, new to engineering, and now, as a senior entering graduate school,” Leach says. “I am so excited to witness all the great things she will accomplish in her career ahead.”

Damond looks forward to continuing research with Upal Ghosh, professor of CBEE, and collaborators at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on methods for better measuring mercury levels in water. She’s passionate about the work, she explains, because measuring mercury is a difficult problem and also an important one to solve to protect human health. 

She’s also grateful for Ghosh’s ongoing support. At the numerous national and regional conferences Damond has attended with the lab, “Dr. Ghosh always makes sure to introduce his students to other professionals in the field relevant to the specific work that they do, so I have been able to broaden my network,” she says. 

On the academic side, Ghosh “is always making sure his students are on track in their studies,” she says. “He was eager to spend time reviewing concepts that were new to me, and would give me resources to point me in the right direction.”

Damond’s goal is to pursue environmental consulting work. She enjoyed tutoring chemical engineering courses and mentoring younger CNMS Scholars so much that she also hopes to find a way to teach throughout her career.

“Tutoring helped to improve my communication skills, as I had to explain concepts in a way that the students would understand, while making sure that they could replicate those explanations,” she says. “It was very rewarding when they left a tutoring session feeling more confident about the subject than they did going in.”


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APRIL 15, 2020 | MEGAN HANKS | CBEE, CLASSOF2020, COEIT, CWIT


When her courses moved online in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sammie Maygers ‘20, chemical engineering, knew staying connected with her UMBC community would need to be a top priority. In some ways, her experience changed substantially. But it was also a continuation of the same UMBC journey, powered by community support.

When Maygers was looking at colleges, she knew that UMBC was the place for her as soon as she heard about the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) from a high school classmate. When she visited campus, she says that it instantly felt like a family. “UMBC feels like home,” she says. “It’s inclusive.”

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Jennifer Sheriff

BS Chemical Engineering,Traditional Track (1997) 
After earning her BS at UMBC, Jennifer earned a M.S. Degree in Statistics at University of Delaware. She employed by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. since 1997.Career Highlights:
  • Process engineer for the manufacturing process to produce PTFE fibers including the fiber for Glide(R) Dental Floss. 
  • Engineering leader for manufacturing engineers in US, Germany, China, and Japan 
  • End to End Global Supply Chain Manager "

Nicholas Rogers

BS Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Sustainability track (2015)

Nick is currently a fourth year Ph.D. candidate at Duke University in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Under Dr. Mark Wiesner, Nick is studying the relationships between extracellular vesicle (EV) surface chemistry and their associated transport and fate in soil systems. This research is in collaboration with the Duke Extracellular Vesicle Network (DEVNet), an internal interdisciplinary working group devoted to exploring the role of EVs in inter-kingdom communication. His research is being supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. While at UMBC, Nick worked in the labs of both Dr. Mark Marten and Dr. Lee Blaney.

Elise Adamson

BS Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Track (2017)

  • PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University
  • HHMI Gilliam Fellow
  • NSF GRFP Fellow
  • Ford Foundation Fellowship award winner

Irina Ramos

PhD Chemical Engineering (2009)

She works at AstraZeneca as part of the Biopharmaceutical Development team. She has been there for over 10 years. Her experience focuses on development of downstream processes for Biologics from Early to Late stages and a clear understanding of marketing application requirements. Since 2015, she has taught one of the courses for the Graduate Program in Biotechnology. Her PhD advisor was Dr. Theresa Good.

Cindy Chelius

PhD Chemical Engineering (2019)

Cindy is a Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb in the upstream process development group located in Devens, Massachusetts. Her PhD advisor was Dr. Marten.

Sevda Deldari

PhD Chemical Engineering (2020)

She started a new position at AstraZeneca as a scientist in BioProcess Technologies and Engineering group. Her PhD advisor were Dr. Douglas Frey and Dr. Govind Rao

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Please join me in congratulating Utsav Shashvatt, PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering, who did UMBC proud as a Finalist at the Council of Southern Graduate Schools Regional 3MT competition in beautiful Birmingham, Alabama. Although he will not be advancing to nationals, his 'Urine-Credible presentation regarding his dissertation work on the role of struvite in the environmental management of urine earned him a Top 8 finish out of over 50 participants. He received numerous praise from the judges and audience members.

In addition, he received a $150 cash prize to celebrate his amazing achievement.

Congratulations again Utsav!

UMBC's 2020 3MT competition will be held on April 1. 

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He will be recognized for this award at the UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony postponed due to COVID-19. More details

This is the third year in a row CBEE has been recognized at the UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony. Previous awards for CBEE faculty and Staff are: 

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Yun Jiao, PhD candidate, co-authored an article published at Journal of Neuroscience. 

NEWS RELEASE 24-FEB-2020 | EUREKAlert! AAAS


Resetting immune cells improves traumatic brain injury recovery in mice

Prolonged inflammation damages brain after injury, quelling it offers new treatment option for long-term recovery

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

Targeting overactive immune cells and dampening their effects may serve as a new treatment for treating a traumatic brain injury, according to new research in mice published in JNeurosci.

Time is of the essence when treating a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Triggered by trauma, microglia - the brain's immune cells - morph into an inflammatory state, which helps to protect the brain. However, long term inflammation may contribute to neurological degeneration after a TBI.
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Link to Journal Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2402-19.2020 

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Speaker: Joseph P. Blackford, Tau Beta Pi Leadership
Apartment Community Center | 6 pm - 8 pm

Tuesday, February 18:  AIChE CHEM-E-CAR Unveiling
Engineering Atrium | 6 pm - 7:30 pm  

Wednesday, February 19: Diversity Panel, hosted by SHPE 
Engineering Atrium | 6 pm - 8 pm

Thursday, February 20: SWE's Hot Chocolate Bar- Networking
Engineering Atrium | 6 pm - 7:30 pm

Friday, February 21: Let's Get Techy, hosted by ASME - Youth Outreach
Engineering Atrium | 10 am - 2:30 pm

Friday, February 21: Battle of the Engineers- Competition
University Center 115 | 12 pm - 1 pm

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An article co-authored by Dr. Greg Szeto was chosen by the Editor of Trends in Cancer as the best review of 2019. 

Quote from http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/best-reviews-we-published-in-2019-part-3 :

Integrative Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy

Recommended by Ana Batista, former Editor of Trends in Cancer*

This year we highlight "Integrative Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy" in which Greg Szeto and Stacey Finley argue for a holistic systems-level approach to deconvolute and understand the complexities of cancer, and design more effective immune-based therapies. The integration of the fields of systems biology and immune-oncology is a timely, but less discussed, topic that was important to bring to the journal and to the forefront of discussion.
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