Integrative Science and Engineering Center
The Integrative Science and Engineering Center addresses emerging challenges affecting populations on a local, regional, and global level through research and discovery. Our thematic areas of interest include biomedical, biomolecular, and environmental research.
As a vital part of our teams, undergraduate and graduate students gain authentic research experience, training to become the next generation of scientists and engineers using integrated approaches to solve broad challenges of societal relevance.
University of Dayton environmental geologist Umesh Haritashya is one of 32 international scientists who contributed to research published Dec. 9 in Nature that assessed and ranked the planet’s 78 mountain glacier-based water systems in order of their importance to adjacent lowland communities and vulnerability to future environmental and socioeconomic changes.
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Katie Parker has spent most of her four years at the University of Dayton searching for a chemical to minimize the effects of brain cancer.
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University of Dayton chemist Justin Biffinger will lead a new $2 million federal research program to investigate how fungi degrade polyurethane-based coatings and how degradation impacts the environment.
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The National Institutes of Health awarded a University of Dayton researcher $148,077 to study the role of a novel calcium-handling protein in the brain that could be involved in mental conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Testing drugs on cell cultures in a petri dish is cheaper and comes with less ethical issues than testing with live animals. But cell cultures, unlike animals, are flat. Dr. Kristen Krupa-Comfort of The University of Dayton is working on a method of creating 3D cell cultures that will allow researchers to test drugs in similar conditions to live animals, all in a petri dish.
From The Conversation
Testing drugs on cell cultures in a petri dish is cheaper and comes with less ethical issues than testing with live animals. But cell cultures, unlike animals, are flat. Dr. Kristen Krupa-Comfort of The University of Dayton is working on a method of creating 3D cell cultures that will allow researchers to test drugs in similar conditions to live animals, all in a petri dish.