Graduate Field Affiliation Materials Science and Engineering Research Interests Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine In the News Cornell CAT convenes researchers, industry to accelerate life sciences innovation At a daylong event designed to promote academic-industry collaboration, Cornell’s Center for Advanced Technology in Life Science Enterprise cast itself as both a funder of early-stage research and catalyst accelerating connections that move discoveries foward. Three faculty receive indefinite tenure At its recent meetings, the Cornell University Board of Trustees elected the following professors to appointment with indefinite tenure, effective November 1, 2024: Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Professor, (BME, MSE), was elected Professor with indefinite tenure. Qi Li, Assistant Professor… Van Vliet named a trailblazer in higher education Krystyn Van Vliet, vice president for research and innovation and professor (MSE, BME), has been named one of City & State New York’s 2024 Trailblazers in Higher Education, for connecting “the university’s research communities with external funding and facilitates… New grant to broaden support for hardware entrepreneurs Rev: Ithaca Startup Works is set to expand its hardware accelerator programs thanks to $4 million in grants from local and federal sources. Decadal survey sets agenda for biological, physical sciences in space The National Academies’ latest decadal survey, “Thriving in Space,” released Sept. 12, provides a roadmap for biological and physical sciences research, from the low orbit of Earth to the surface of Mars, through 2033. Van Vliet named vice president for research and innovation Krystyn J. Van Vliet, currently associate provost and associate vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join Cornell in 2023 as vice president for research and innovation.
