The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has again posted a banner year for externally sponsored projects, bringing in more than $74 million in awards during fiscal year 2020.
Pengyu Chen, assistant professor of materials engineering, was recently awarded a $2.6 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a biosensor designed to guide a novel immunotherapy for better treating cancer, specifically leukemia.
Two assistant professors in the Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a biosensor that will rapidly detect COVID-19.
Three more Auburn Engineering faculty have been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering brought in $59.6 million in externally sponsored research awards from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019. The college has also placed in the top 10% of engineering institutions in the nation for research expenditures for the past 15 years.
Assistant professor Pengyu Chen will use a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop next-generation, rapid diagnostic tools for the health care industry.