Hubbell’s research focuses on tissue engineering, including designing materials to guide processes of morphogenesis through engineering of extracellular matrix molecules and growth factors, to create implants that are drug-like in...Read more

Jeffrey Hubbell, the Barry L. MacLean Professor of Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Chicago, recently received the Society for Biomaterials’ 2017 Founders Award , the organization’s...Read more

Matthew Tirrell has been appointed to a second five-year term as Pritzker Director and dean of the faculty of the Institute for Molecular Engineering , President Robert J. Zimmer and...Read more

Imagine unbreakable encryption, room-temperature superconductors, inexpensive molecular sensors, a cure for cancer. These are the challenges molecular engineers are taking on. These and other promising technologies were explored during “Future...Read more

The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Chemical Engineers have launched a new interdisciplinary journal titled Molecular Systems Design and Engineering . Two faculty members in the Institute...Read more

New forms of glassy molecules surprise and intrigue engineers

When Prof. Juan de Pablo and his collaborators set about to explain unusual peaks in what should have been featureless optical data, they thought there was a problem in their...Read more

By carefully controlling the position of an atomic-scale diamond defect within a volume smaller than what some viruses would fill, researchers have cleared a path toward better quantum computers and...Read more

Initiative will build new collaborative programs and reinforce existing work at world-renowned biology institution

Dr. Matthew Tirrell, a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, and the founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering, will discuss the research and...Read more

The University of Chicago has created four named professorships for its new Institute for Molecular Engineering , building momentum behind the new academic program. Funding for the new professorships will...Read more

Steven Sibener, Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, discusses how the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago came to be.Read more

Thomas Rosenbaum, Provost, The University of Chicago; Stephen Streiffer, Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory; Amanda Petford-Long, Division Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory;...Read more

Erin Adams, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Committee on Immunology, The University of Chicago, and Thomas Rosenbaum, Provost, The University of Chicago, discuss how inter-disciplinary collaboration, cutting edge science...Read more