Articles from 2020

Jennifer Fiegel

Fiegel awarded NSF grant for research on targeting drug carriers to lung cells

Wednesday, September 9, 2020
University of Iowa scholars are designing polymers to help maintain the effectiveness of drugs once they enter the lungs of patients.
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CEE student selected as finalist for NOAA fellowship

Tuesday, September 8, 2020
a student and professor are both wearing goggles and lab coats and are standing in a lab

Fiegel Lab examines connection between a cough and ‘super-producers’ of bioaerosols

Friday, September 4, 2020
Fiegel and her team examined how exhaled bioaerosols—droplets produced from the lung during breathing, coughing, and sneezing—are produced from lung-like surfaces during a cough.
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UI engineers and neurologists develop a highly efficient algorithm that can detect Parkinson’s Disease through EEG data

Monday, August 31, 2020
A team at the University of Iowa led by Soura Dasgupta and Nandakumar Narayanan has developed a computational approach using EEG data to diagnose Parkinson's disease. The algorithm achieves 85% accuracy and real-time efficiency, outperforming existing methods and facilitating adaptive deep brain stimulation for symptom management.

CBE Alumni - Where Are They Now?

Thursday, August 27, 2020