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MMI Director Prof. Bhanu P. Jena to present the Opening Keynote Lecture entitled: “The Porosome Secretory Nanomachine: Discovery to Therapy”, at the International Drug Discovery Science & Technology (IDDST) Congress in Kyoto, Japan

Porosome & Peptide Therapy: A Biologic Rescue from Alzheimer’s (A New, Safe, & Effective Treatment for AD)

MMI helps launch the "Next Green Revolution" & the scientifically proven “Health Benefits of Tea"

Porosome reconstitution therapy: A biologic rescue from cystic fibrosis (In human lung organoids and in CF mice)

MMI Director Prof. Bhanu P. Jena recognized with the 2024 “Lipid Science Prize”

Study by Prof. Joachim Frank’s group using Cryo-EM, published in the journal ‘Cell' reveals structural intermediates in millisecond resolution on ribosome function

MMI Faculty has Developed “MicroMagnify", a new nanoscale multiplexed imaging method for detection of pathogens.

Prof. Lars Larsson, resident member of the MMI & Professor at the Karolinska Institute Sweden, receives the 2023 GUSI Peace Prize. The citation reads: For his “…untiring efforts, working for people's amelioration and health, to find peaceful solutions for peoples welfare in the field of Physiology & Pharmacology, Clinical Neuroscience.”

Prof. Lars Larsson, Resident Member of the MMI & Professor at the Karolinska Institute Sweden, presented an Invited Distinguished Lecture to Harvard & Boston Post-Doctoral Fellows. Associate MMI Resident Member Prof. Octavian Bucur presented the impact of Expansion Pathology technology. Jan 23, 2023

MMI Member Yongxin Zhao Publishes Manuscript on Expansion Microscopy in Nature Biotechnology, Jan. 02, 2023

Endowed lectureship created at Wayne State University in the Department of Physiology, to recognize the pioneering scientific contributions of Prof. Bhanu P. Jena, Ph.D. Dec. 14, 2022

MMI Associate Investigator invited to present Expansion Pathology technology at the Romanian Public Television, Oct. 31, 2022