Research

UNC Charlotte’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science (CBES) and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) hosted the 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium on Monday, Sept. 15 at the Dubois Center. The event kicked off North Carolina Life Sciences Week as proclaimed by North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein and Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, bringing together over […]

The 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium kicked off North Carolina Life Sciences Week on Monday, Sept. 15 at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, where students from universities across North Carolina presented their research throughout the afternoon. The event featured 113 research projects, including 65 poster presentations and 40 oral presentations. UNC Charlotte’s Center for Biomedical Engineering […]

UNC Charlotte researcher Danillo Augusto, Ph.D., was recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an immunomics project that is using a new approach to study human immune response and autoimmune diseases.  Augusto and his team of researchers are employing a novel method using long-read sequencing technology. The research design […]

UNC Charlotte students joined other citizen scientists across Georgia, Florida, Alabama and North and South Carolina to participate in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census last weekend. The goal of the census was to capture a point-in-time data set of the number and variety of pollinators, and the flowers that attract them. The census was organized […]

More than 130 researchers from North and South Carolina convened in the UNC Charlotte Cone University Center on Wednesday, June 11, for the inaugural Carolina Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation.  The symposium was hosted by the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science in the Klein College of […]

Klein College of Science researchers Pinku Mukherjee and Susan Trammell were each awarded a research and development grant from NCInnovation this week. NCInnovation is a nonprofit organization that bridges the gap between academia and industry to help advance research from North Carolina public universities from proof-of-concept to commercial investment and viability. The grants were awarded after […]

The Mathematics Graduate Student Association (MGSA) hosted the inaugural Graduate Research in Math (GRiM) symposium at UNC Charlotte on Feb. 8, fully planned and executed by and for graduate students. The Klein College of Science graduate students presented on a variety of mathematical fields, ranging from pure to applied mathematics, and covering topics including graph […]

UNC Charlotte announced the formation of the Charlotte AI Institute with the Center for TAIMing AI and the Center for Innovation, Translational Research and Applications of Nanostructured Systems, CITRANS, leading the way. These two Centers are leveraging the quickly developing field of artificial intelligence to create cutting-edge discovery, interdisciplinary collaboration and workforce development. The Centers […]

Jordan C. Poler, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, discussed his innovations to remove harmful and forever chemicals from drinking water with the Costal Review. Poler’s research is funded in part by a grant from NC Innovation. The purification system developed by the Poler Research Group cleans per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and other toxins such […]

Ishwar D. Aggarwal, Ph.D., research professor in the Klein College of Science, was elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2024 Class of Fellows. He will be inducted during the 14th annual NAI meeting in June 2025 among an elite group of researchers across a variety of government and non-profit research institutions. Aggarwal has […]