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Stroka Takes New Look at Cell Migration
University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering Associate Professor and alum Kimberly Stroka (Ph.D. '11) was awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate how a particular protein that is known to control water transport across the cell membrane also influences cell migration in a range of physiological and pathological processes.
Yiping Qi Leads New FFAR Grant to Speed Development of Enhanced Crops
While gene editing technology has improved crop breeding and adaptation, the process of regrowing a plant from edited cells is costly, lengthy, and unpredictable. Many popular crops are difficult to regenerate with existing methods.
IonQ, UMD to Establish First-of-its-Kind Facility to Provide Quantum Computing Access
The new National Quantum Lab (Q-Lab), to be located adjacent to IonQ in UMD's discovery district, will give UMD-affiliated students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners access to IonQ’s industry-leading trapped-ion quantum computer hardware as well as IonQ scientists and engineers. Photo courtesy of Joint Quantum Institute
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