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Recognizing those who build a vibrant technical community

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today recognized five individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Representing diverse areas, the 2024 award recipients were selected by their peers for building a vibrant community that benefits both their colleagues and the broader society.

Study simulates pulling on athletes' jerseys to predict noncontact ACL injuries

University of Kansas

Researchers at the University of Kansas conducted a study in which subjects jumped in the air and a weight connected to their torso was dropped while in the air. The subjects landed on one leg and force, weight on the knee and other measures were taken. The results showed pulling an athletes' jersey from behind resulted in the most pressure on the knee. The findings are useful as contact sports have a much higher incidence of ACL injuries than others and that most such injuries occur when there is no direct contact to the knee made. They also illustrate the importance of building core strength in athletes to help prevent such injuries.

Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

New digital tool provides satellite monitoring of crop health across US

University of Kansas
Business Announcement

Researchers from the University of Kansas, with support from the KansasView and AmericaView programs, have created a web-based app for the public that provides free satellite monitoring and analysis of vegetation and crop health across Kansas and the nation, called the Sentinel GreenReport Plus.

Nature study reveals novel strategy for in vivo blood stem cell gene therapy

Fondazione Telethon
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget, Milan) have discovered a critical early postnatal window that allows for effective in vivo gene transfer to circulating hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) using lentiviral vectors (LVs), as published in Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Fondazione Telethon, Fondazione Cariplo, Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research 2020, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Institute of Health Carlos III), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain), NextGeneration EU

2025 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to pioneers of CAR T-cell therapy

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Grant and Award Announcement

Four biomedical innovators — Carl June, Bruce Levine, Isabelle Rivière, and Michel Sadelain — have been jointly awarded the 2025 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a groundbreaking form of personalized cancer immunotherapy that turns T cells into tumor killers and has led to durable remissions in tens of thousands of patients with previously incurable blood cancers.

High-resolution metalens doublet microscope for compact biomedical imaging

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Metalenses, compact alternatives to bulky optical systems, suffer from off-axis aberrations that restrict resolution and field of view (FOV). In a recent study, researchers from China developed a novel metalens microscope using a metalens doublet configuration and annular illumination. Their design achieved unprecedented resolution and a wide FOV in an extremely compact format. Notably, a prototype could successfully image cervical cancer cells, highlighting its promise for portable, high-performance biomedical imaging and miniaturized optical devices.

Journal: Advanced Photonics

New AI tool reveals single-cell structure of chromosomes — in 3D

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a major leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can predict the 3D shape of chromosomes inside individual cells — helping researchers gain a new view of how our genes work.

Journal: NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics