Trask Innovation Fund, Proof of Concept Fund finance projects to improve food packaging, antibacterial therapeutics, machine learning and battery technology.

Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has received the prestigious Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant to support his cancer biology research.

Kevin Gococo Ng, an undergraduate student in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, received a Best Symposium Presentation Award at the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) symposium.

Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor from the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has improved upon traditional methods to produce off-the-shelf human immune cells that show strong antitumor activity, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Vilas Pol has been awarded $50,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund for the continued development of his novel research in developing solid-state, lithium-ion batteries.