New Breast Cancer Findings Promise Improved Treatments

Breast cancer affects millions of women worldwide. Now a Stevens research team, in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Illinois, has unlocked a new class of molecules with apparent anti-cancer properties. A separate team also recently shed new light on the processes of breast tumor growth and metastasis and the ways in which surrounding tissues influence (and may control) those processes.

New Visualizations of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS In collaboration with Stanford, Oxford and Tübingen universities, Stevens professor Johannes Weickenmeier has produced striking new visualizations and simulations of the spread of prion diseases through the brain. The work could inform more directed treatments of these diseases.

NSF Funds Two Stevens Quantum Communications Grants The National Science Foundation has awarded two of eight new quantum communications grants to Stevens Institute of Technology teams. The highly competitive RAISE-EQuIP grants were awarded to separate collaborative projects with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Nanotech for Fuel Efficiency, Air Safety A Stevens researcher works to create new nanoshapes and nanostructures that help maritime vessels move more efficiently through the water and remain clearer of bacteria and other fouling. The same principles are also being used to experiment with keeping airline wings ice-free.

New AI-Powered Cyberattack Revealed Stevens researchers created and demonstrated a powerful new AI-powered cyberattack, immune to cyberdefenses, as a cautionary exercise. The attack involved the creation of a network known as a GAN (generative adversarial network) to guess and steal private data from devices.