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Miranda receives the NSF GRFP!

Miranda Simpson received the 2026 NSF GRFP. Congratulations, Miranda!

Emma Anderson, Kelsey Krusen, Max Tenenbaum, National Science Foundation GRFP winners
Department of Bioengineering Students Awarded Prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowships

50% of this year’s eligible cohort of first year PhD students received the NSF GRFP award, which will support their bioengineering research for three years.

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Noora Azadvari receives a travel award

Noora Azadvari received a travel award from the Boulder Peptide Symposium. Congrats, Noora!

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Hanna, Hannah, and Waverly defend their Honors theses!

Major congratulations to Hanna, Hannah, and Waverly for successfully defending their Honors theses! We’re thrilled to celebrate this huge milestone with you!

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Waverly Wilson selected for the Faith Van Nice Scholarship

Congrats to Waverly Wilson to be selected for the Faith Van Nice Scholarship through the department of chemistry and biochemistr

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Hosseinzadeh's Research Featured in Science
Research on enzymes with the potential to break down plastics in the environment from the lab of Knight Campus' Parisa Hosseinzadeh, is mentioned in a Science story on AI designer proteins inspired by this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry. An assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Hosseinzadeh was previously advised by recent Nobel winner David Baker.
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Heal faster. Be healthier. Live better.

Synthetic biologist Calin Plesa, computational biochemist Parisa Hosseinzadeh and bioengineer Marian Hettiaratchi came to Oregon from around the world to improve lives through discovery.

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Hosseinzadeh receives NIH New Innovator Award

Parisa Hosseinzadeh, an assistant professor at the University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Director’s New Innovator Award Program for her project, “A data-driven approach towards generation of permeable peptide therapeutics.”

The Parisa H. Lab 

Founded in 2020, the Parisa H. lab is a protein engineering research group within the University of Oregon's Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. Based in the Department of Bioengineering in Eugene, Oregon, the Parisa H. lab designs novel peptides and proteins that tackle some of the challenges of 21st century.