Davidson School of Chemical Engineering PhD student Kaustabh Sarkar received a Leslie Bottorff Fellowship for his research in delivering localized chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancers. Sarkar is advised by Purdue Chemical Engineering Professor You-Yeon Won.

Dr. Xiaoping Bao, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is winner of the 2019 LG Chem Global Innovation Contest award for his research in human-induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs. Dr. Bao's research proposal, 'Biomanufacturing Universal Natural Killer Cells from hiPSCs for Immunotherapy', will explore the potential of natural killer (NK) cells, a type of innate immune cells, from hiPSCs for cancer treatment.

Purdue University is developing a first-of-its-kind collection of engineering educational resources available online, for free or low-cost, to anyone around the world. Purdue Engineering Open Bytes™ will include high-quality textbooks, case studies, monographs and lecture notes written by College of Engineering faculty members. Jan-Anders Mansson, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and co-director of the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC), has one of the first books planned, "Sports Industry Technology Innovation."