Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Awarded $3.3 Million Grant to Improve mRNA Purification Technology
Research aims to address a critical bottleneck in the production of mRNA therapeutics.
Research aims to address a critical bottleneck in the production of mRNA therapeutics.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Georges Belfort, Ph.D., and Steven Cramer, Ph.D., both Institute Professors of Chemical and Biological Engineering, have won the 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education given by the National Academy of Engineering.
Biotechnology researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are working to further improve mRNA therapeutics, with the aim of reducing manufacturing costs and enabling additional therapeutic uses for mRNA technology.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has elected Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea to the newest class of AAAS fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.
Georges Belfort has been awarded the Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology.
World-leading bioseparations expert Georges Belfort was recently elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Georges Belfort visited Germany and Italy last month as part of two prestigious honors from elite European scientific societies.