UMBC finalists for the Rapid Testing Innovation Award At Advanced Lateral Flow Conference 2021

The team led by UMBC's Dr. Dipanjan Pan (twitter: @ProfDipanjanPan) is the only academic group selected as a finalist for the Rapid Testing Innovation Award at the Advanced Lateral Flow Conference 2021.

Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 via Oligonucleotide Based Molecular Lateral Flow Assay 

Presented by Ketan Dighe 

During the COVID-19 pandemic’s early and deadliest days last year, health authorities were plagued by a lack of testing, long wait times for results, and an ambiguous picture of what was generating outbreaks. Many public health experts are still dealing with the same challenges more than a year and a half later into the pandemic. Therefore, the need of the hour is a self-administered test that is accurate, simple-to-run, and detects COVID-19 cases within minutes. Here we develop a direct POC lateral flow assay devoid of an RNA isolation and amplification step to detect positive COVID-19 cases within 10 minutes.

Read more about all finalists
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 “HHMI is committed to giving outstanding biomedical scientists the time, resources, and freedom they need to explore uncharted scientific territory,” says HHMI President Erin O’Shea. 

Dr. Dzirasa (M9) visits UMBC once a month to mentor and engage with current Meyerhoff Scholars. 

For more details, please read the HHMI press release found on this link.
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The Outstanding Alumni Of the Year Award is given to a UMBC graduate who has brought distinction to the University through personal and professional achievement. Awards can be presented in each of the following areas: Aging, Engineering & Information Technology; Humanities; Natural & Mathematical Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences; Social Work, and Visual & Performing Arts. To be considered for this award, the nominee must have:
  • Graduated from UMBC no less than five years ago.
  • Achieved prominence in his or her field.
  • Ideally, demonstrated involvement and support of UMBC and/or the Alumni Association.
Dr. Banta will be given this award at the 2021 UMBC Alumni Awards Ceremony Wednesday, October 20, with the pre-ceremony activities beginning at 5:30 p.m. on UMBC’s campus. Details will follow. 

Biography

After graduating from the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering program at UMBC in 1997 Dr. Banta went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University in 2000 and 2002. Following a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he started his independent faculty career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University in 2004. He is now Professor and Vice Chair of the Department. Dr. Banta started his research career as an undergraduate volunteer at UMBC in the Protein Engineering laboratory. This experience ignited his passion for synthetic biology research and he has been working in this general area ever since.

Dr. Banta’s research program has focused on the engineering of proteins and peptides for various applications in areas including biocatalysis, bioelectrocatalysis, biomaterials, gene and drug delivery, biosensing, and bioenergy. His group is also developing new biotechnology platforms for energy harvesting and conversion. He has published about 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, holds 9 U.S. patents, has given seminars around the country as well as internationally. He has received funding from every major federal funding source and already has two former PhD students with tenure in domestic Chemical Engineering departments. In 2014 he co-founded a startup company, Ironic Chemicals LLC, and the company received 2 Phase I STTR grants from the National Science Foundation.
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Congratulations to Dr. James Sanders '18, Environmental Engineering PhD. He received two awards for the paper, Development of a Novel Equilibrium Passive Sampling Device for Methylmercury in Sediment and Soil Porewaters, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Dr. Sanders' PhD advisor was Dr. Ghosh. 

  1. The 2020 Best Student Paper award from Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.  
  2. One of the Top 10 Exceptional Papers of 2020 by the Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C).  Note, this is for all papers, not just student lead authors. 

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We are proud of all of our students' achievements. We would like to highlight the CBEE students recognized during UMBC's 2017 Student Recognition Week 

Honors in Chemical Engineering

  • Seas, Andreas
  • Keim, Robert
  • Ocasio, Daniel
  • Menikheim, Sydney
  • Soetje, Eric
  • Sampson, Melissa
  • Muzzey, David
  • Zuber, Adam
  • Adamson, Elise
  • Najmi, Sean
  • Engel, Jake
  • Drew, Jeremy
  • Chappell, Jennifer
  • Paige, Julian
  • Alafe, Oluwagbemileke
  • Wyatt, Ryan
  • Ghazali, Mohsin

Outstanding Seniors in Chemical Engineering 

Highest academic achievement of seniors majoring in chemical engineering 

CBEE Undergraduate Research Award

  • Andreas Seas

COEIT 2018 Student Service Award for CBEE

  • Sean Najmi

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We are proud of all of our students' achievements. We would like to highlight the CBEE students recognized during UMBC's 2018 Student Recognition Week 

Honors in Chemical Engineering

  • Mekha Thomas 
  • Nicholas Simon 
  • Naomi Mburu 
  • Alexander Lilly 
  • Jessica Deng 
  • Sarah Douglas 
  • Bethany Wolinski 
  • Rafay Ashar
  • Adrian Davey 
  • Andrew Beard 
  • Joshua Benoit 
  • Donnel Thomas
  • Adam Beard
  • Dorra Benmohamed

Outstanding Seniors in Chemical Engineering 

Highest academic achievement of seniors majoring in chemical engineering 

CBEE Undergraduate Research Award

  •  Donnel Thomas

COEIT 2018 Student Leadership Award for CBEE

  • Hannah Aris

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We are proud of all of our students' achievements. We would like to highlight the CBEE students recognized during UMBC's 2019 Student Recognition Week 

Honors in Chemical Engineering

  • Aryeh Sherizen
  • Connor B Ganley
  • Ruthie Spiker  
  • Bora Hunja
  • Robin Sevell
  • Jacob R Sherman
  • Eric Shaner

Outstanding Seniors in Chemical Engineering 

Highest academic achievement of seniors majoring in chemical engineering 

CBEE Undergraduate Research Award

  • Alex Doan 

COEIT 2019 Student Leadership Award for CBEE

  • Elizabeth Tan

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We are proud of all of our students' achievements. We would like to highlight the CBEE students recognized during UMBC's 2020 Student Recognition Week 

Honors in Chemical Engineering 

  • Alex Von Gunten 
  • Sammie Maygers
  • Manos Tzortzakakis 
  • Rudolph Holley
  • Joel Hayford 
  • Eliana Crentsil 
  • Scott Nickells
  • Jeremy Keene
  • Connor Bowman
  • Ward Gracey 
  • Laina Colony

Outstanding Seniors in Chemical Engineering 

Highest academic achievement of seniors majoring in chemical engineering 

CBEE Undergraduate Research Award

  • Jada Damond

COEIT 2020 Student Leadership Award for CBEE

  • Alex Von Gunten

image credit: Photo by Sagar Patil on Unsplash
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In her nomination package, Dr. Lee Blaney, Associate Professor wrote: "Bridget Anger was selected due to her outstanding contributions to research efforts involving analysis of antimicrobial activity for environmentally-relevant antibiotics subjected to photochemical treatment processes. To improve bioassay sensitivity, Bridget has performed antimicrobial activity assays for dozens of antibiotics with Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Mycoplasma microti. To date, these data have been included in four presentations and one peer-reviewed journal article. Her work facilitated collection of new information that enabled us to make key advances in antimicrobial activity analysis. She is fully deserving of this prestigious award." 

Bridget will begin her PhD this fall at George Washington University. 
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During the June 17, 2021 meeting, the Board of Regents officially approved the nominations of the Council of University System Staff (CUSS) for the Regents Staff Awards. The awardees will be recognized during the September 10, 2021 board meeting. 

Non-Exempt Staff 
Victor Fulda, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
A 27-year veteran of UMBC, Victor Fulda is among the most highly respected staff members in the university’s Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering. He is regarded as the expert on all issues related to equipment, chemistry, and processes. He never shies away from a challenge while he supports faculty in the department. The labs he serves are essentially running 24 hours a day, seven days per week. He is readily available to troubleshoot and provide support as needed. As President Freeman Hrabowski observes, Victor is a more than a team member, he is also a mentor, colleague, and teacher—and his contributions have been truly exceptional

USM Press Release July 2021: https://www.usmd.edu/newsroom/news/2176
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