Synthetic Biology Group, Professor Timothy Lu
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NEWS

5/19/2012: Allen Cheng publishes his first paper in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering with the Lu lab.

4/3/2012: UROP Chris Yoon publishes his first paper in ACS Nano with the Lu lab.

4/2/2012: Graduate student Allen Chen wins a Hertz Fellowship

4/2/2012: Graduate student Jacob Rubens wins an NSF Fellowship

9/20/2011: Professor Lu receives an NIH New Innovator Award

4/22/2010: The Synthetic Biology Group is awarded an ONR MURI grant for "Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Create Programmable Micro-Bio-Robots"

11/30/2010: Professor Lu receives Best Paper in the Biomedical Technologies Sessions and Bronze Medal (2nd Overall) in the 27th Army Science Conference

8/26/2010: Professor Lu is named to the Technology Review's TR35 Top Innovators Under 35

5/27/2010:  Professor Lu receives the Leon Reznick Memorial Prize from Harvard Medical School.

SELECTED MEDIA

“It's the DNA that counts,” Science, vol. 324, no. 5931, pp. 1156-1157, May 29, 2009.
(http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/324/5931/1156)
 
“Cellular Counter Brings Computer Programming to Life,” Wired, May 28, 2009.
(http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/cellcounters/)

“Engineered phage foil antibiotic resistance,” Nature Biotechnology Research Highlights, vol. 27, no. 4,   p. 348, April 2009.
(http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n4/full/nbt0409-348.html)

“Viral Bacteria-Killers,” National Public Radio Science Friday, March 6, 2009.
(http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200903061)

“Novophage Forming to Combat Antibiotic Resistance with Engineered Viruses,” Xconomy, March 5, 2009.
(http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/03/05/novophage-forming-to-combat-antibiotic-resistance-with-engineered-viruses/)

“Engineered Viruses Could Battle Superbugs,” U.S. News and World Report, March 4, 2009.
(http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/04/engineered-viruses-could-battle-superbugs.html)

“Engineered Viruses Could Battle Superbugs,” Forbes.com, March 3, 2009.
(http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/03/04/hscout624656.html)

“Engineered viruses help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria," Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology News, March 2, 2009.
(http://hst.mit.edu/servlet/ControllerServlet?handler=EventHandler&action=viewOne&eventId=5605)

“Engineered viruses can help fight antibiotic resistance: Viruses attack bacterial defenses,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Release, March 2, 2009. 
(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/antibiotic-resistance-0302.html)

“Engineered viruses fight bacteria: Viruses that target bacteria could help give antibiotics a boost,” Nature News, March 2, 2009.
(http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090302/full/news.2009.131.html)

“Genome Technology Names 2008 ’Tomorrow's PIs,’” Genome Technology Magazine Press Release, December 8, 2008. 
(http://sev.prnewswire.com/magazines/20081208/NY5067208122008-1.html).

“MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest: Lu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Release, November 21, 2008.
(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/inventor-1121.html)

“Bacteriophage, Plastic Steel and Round Robots Prove Winners,” Popular Science, November 21, 2008.
(http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-11/bacteriophage-plastic-steel-and-round-robots-prove-winners)

“Winners Announced in 2008 Collegiate Inventors Competition,” National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Press Release, November 20, 2008.
(http://www.invent.org/press/2008%20CIC%20Winners%2011-19-08.pdf)

“Beating Bacteria,” Science, vol. 320, no. 5872, p. 29, April 4, 2008. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol320/issue5872/newsmakers.dtl)

“Antibiotic-resistance work gets $30,000 prize,” Boston Globe, February 28, 2008.  (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/28/antibiotic_resistance_work_gets_30000_prize/)

“MIT Student Honored for Antibiotics Work,” Associated Press, February 27, 2008.  (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihYAzrUdJ3CQOFJEngWyNYeclyrgD8V2STF01)

“MIT student wins Lemelson award for work on infections,” New England Cable News, February 27, 2008.(http://www.necn.com/Boston/SciTech/MIT-student-wins-Lemelson-award-for-work-on-infections-/1204147748.html)

“Synthetic bacteria-fighting organisms win Lemelson-MIT prize,” CNET News, February 27, 2008.  (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877060-7.html?tag=bl)

“Looking for Chinks in the Armor of Bacterial Biofilms,” PLoS Biology, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. e304-e307, November 13, 2007. 
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050307)

“Engineering Phage to Target Biofilm Matrices Enhances Disruption,” Microbe, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 475-476, November 2007. 
(http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=53276)

“Blasting Biofilms,” MIT Technology Review, p. M10, November December 2007.

“Slime battles, funding figures and moving boxes,” Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology, July 20, 2007.  (http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/07/23/newscolumn2.html)

“Biotechnology:  Film ends badly,” Nature Research Highlights, vol. 448, pp. 4-5, July 5, 2007.  (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7149/full/448004a.html)

“Breaking up (biofilms) is no longer hard to do,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences This Week in PNAS, vol. 104, no. 27, pp. 11121-11222, July 3, 2007.  (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/27/11121)

“Scientists engineer viruses to destroy bacteria,” MSNBC, July 9, 2007.  (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19680328/)

“Team builds viruses to combat harmful ‘biofilms’:  A big step forward for synthetic biology,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Release, July 6, 2007. 
(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biofilm-0706.html)

“HST Student Timothy Lu Builds Viruses to Combat Harmful ‘Biofilms’,” Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology News, July 6, 2007.  (http://hst.mit.edu/servlet/ControllerServlet?handler=EventHandler&action=viewOne&eventId=4011)

“Slimebusting virus could clean medical kit,” New Scientist, vol. 2611, p. 26, July 7, 2007.  (http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19526116.400-slimebusting-virus-could-clean-medical-kit.html)

“Scientists report win against bacterial biofilms,” Boston.com White Coat Notes, July 2, 2007.  (http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/07/scientists_repo.html)

“Blasting Biofilms with Viruses:  Specially tailored viruses could eradicate chronic bacterial infections,” MIT Technology Review, July 2, 2007. 
(http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18998/)

“Biowarfare:  Engineered virus can invade bacterial film,” Science News, vol. 171, no. 26, p. 404, June 30, 2007. 
(http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070630/fob3ref.asp)

“Biologists Modify Virus to Help Fight Bacteria,” Associated Content, June 29, 2007.  (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/296787/biologists_modify_virus_to_help_fight.html)

“Bacterial Biofilms No Match for Engineered Virus,” Howard Hughes Medical Institute Press Release, June 25, 2007. 
(http://www.hhmi.org/news/lu20070605.html)

“MIT debuts ‘bionic ear processor’ for hearing impaired,” EE Times, February 8, 2005. (http://eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59301976)

“‘Lab-grown’ blood among plans vying for MIT $50K win,” Boston Business Journal, p. 32, March 26 April 1, 2004.

“WHAT’S NEXT: Analog Over Digital? For a Better Ear Implant, Yes,” New York Times, Section G, p. 8, col. 1, May 29, 2003.
(http://www.rle.mit.edu/avbs/news_nyt.html)

“Siebel Systems Announces Siebel Scholars Class of 2003,” Siebel Systems, Inc. Press Release, October 8, 2002. 
(http://www.siebelscholars.com/news/PDFs/Siebel%20Names%20Class%20of%202003.pdf)

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