On September 28, 2021 SunnyLand’s patent application for “Chemo-enzymatic site-specific modification of peptides and proteins to form cleavable conjugates” was approved.

Sunnyland Lab Professor, Sunny Zhou, after being given $1 million dollars to study the etiologic role of isoaspartic acid, or isoAsp in aging and discusses results he has found from this research. Zhou also goes into detail about the significance of finding methods to lower isoaspartic acid levels in cells which can lead to developing better treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

College of Science Graduate Program staff interviews Amissi Sadiki, Chemistry PhD candidate to get insight on research he is doing at the university, what he enjoys most about Northeastern and the Greater Boston area, why he attends this university, plans after graduation and so much more. Read more to get valuable insight on his experience and how he hopes to pay it forward.

On August 27 2020, Professor Zhou was an invited panelist at Cambridge Health-tech Institute’s 3rd Annual Detection, Characterization and Control of Impurities in Biologics Conference, this year’s hot topic being “Emerging Contaminants and Impurities, Case Studies and New Technologies”. He spoke particularly on “Characterization of Process-Related Impurities”. For a recording our more information on Zhou’s presentation click here to check out the BioProcessing Summit website.