• Drexel Names New Computing Cluster After Historic Alumna

    April 29, 2021

    Picotte, the University’s high-performing computing equipment, is named for Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD, who is believed to be the first Native American physician in the U.S.

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  • Medical Device Startup Nephria Bio to Use Drexel's MXene Filter Material in Wearable Artificial Kidney Technology

    April 29, 2021

    <p style="margin: 0in;">Drexel University&rsquo;s MXene material is one step closer to transforming the lives of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Nephria Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based spin-off of the South Korean medical device company EOFlow Co., Ltd., has signed a licensing agreement with the University to use the two-dimensional material, discovered at Drexel, as a filter in a wearable artificial kidney device it is developing. The technology could allow many of the millions of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease worldwide to move more freely, without spending hours each week anchored to large dialysis machines.</p>
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  • 2021 Global Research Symposium: International Solutions for A Global Crisis

    April 20, 2021

    The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.

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  • Drexel Helps to Establish First Trade Association for Expanding Research, Development and Commercial Use of MXene Materials

    April 19, 2021

    <p>A decade after Drexel University researchers made the pathbreaking discovery of a family of versatile, two-dimensional materials, which they dubbed MXenes, the University is helping to establish a global trade association for researchers, manufacturers and companies that are working with the materials. Called the MXene Association, it will serve as the professional body to establish standards and best practices, connect researchers and corporations and promote the research and development involving the materials.</p>
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  • Drexel Added to University Climate Change Coalition

    April 02, 2021

    The University will work with partner North American institutions of higher education to address and advance climate action through research, partnerships and other collaborations.

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