COPBSMI Celebrates Associate Professor Eno Ebong on Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

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COPBSMI Celebrates Associate Professor Eno Ebong on Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Coalition of Online Publishers, Bloggers, and Social Media Influencers, COPBSMI, celebrates Akwa Ibom daughter, Associate Professor Eno Ebong, for her nomination among 400 Honorees of US President Joe Biden’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States of America.

COPBSMI lauds the exceptional academic and career achievements of Eno Essien Ebong, PhD., maintaining that she is a true reflection of the Akwa Ibom spirit of resilience, perseverance, dedication, and hard work.

“Your recognition for such a prestigious award by US President Joe Biden is not only a milestone that acknowledges and rewards academic and career achievements but will also inspire other Akwa Ibomites to pursue excellence in their chosen career and academic endeavors,” the statement reads.

Dr. Ebong is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biology and an Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. She directs the “Ebong Mechanobiology Laboratory”.

Prior to joining Northeastern University, Dr. Ebong earned her Bachelor’s degree (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, and her M.Eng (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in the area of biomechanics from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

She was a National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Research Fellow (2007 to 2012) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, NY.

Now, Dr. Ebong’s research mission is to study the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs under normal and pathological conditions, with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases and diseases in which dysfunctional vascular function plays a role. Her work is highly regarded, making her the recipient of several honours and awards.

Associate Professor Eno Ebong used the Spark Fund award she received in 2023 from the Center for Research Innovation at Northwestern University to develop a novel therapeutic that targets the glycocalyx to prevent atherosclerosis, a cardiovascular disease that can lead to secondary cardiovascular events such as strokes or heart attacks. Most notably, she received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, for her “EMBRACE STEM (Endothelial MechanoBiology Research And multiCultural Education in STEM)” project.

She recently received an NIH award to study “Glycocalyx Regeneration to Heal Vascular Inflammation and Atherosclerosis”. She was previously awarded the NIH Mentored Research Career Development Award (K01), for studying “Atheroprotective vs. Atherogenic Glycocalyx Mechanotransduction Mechanisms.” She was also awarded the Northeastern University College of Engineering Faculty Fellow. Nationally, Dr. Ebong has been recognized as one of the top 1000 inspiring Black Scientists in America.

Signed:

Comrade Unwana Assam,
Director of Public Communications
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