The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Engineering (TIBI) is pleased to announce their selection of Dr. Cato Laurencin, Chief Executive Officer, Connecticut Convergence Institute, Professor, University of Connecticut as the recipient of the 2025 Paul Terasaki  Innovation Award and Dr Jun Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as the recipient of the 2025 Hisako Terasaki Young Innovator Award.  These awards will be presented at the 3rd Annual Terasaki Innovation Summit, to be held March 5-7, 2025, at the Terasaki Institute Research Headquarters in Woodland Hills, California.

In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University Physics have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing. Using a photonic network interface, they successfully linked two separate quantum processors to form a single, fully connected quantum computer, paving the way to tackling computational challenges previously out of reach. The results have been published today (5 Feb) in Nature. 

Naveen Kumar, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business, has co-authored a study emphasizing the urgent need to address bias by developing and deploying ethical, explainable AI in the wake of new international LLM models from DeepSeek and Alibaba.

A University of Missouri researcher has discovered a new method to remove so-called “forever chemicals” from our drinking water by heating the PFAS with granular activated carbon. The discovery represents a significant breakthrough in managing PFAS-containing solid wastes, biosolids and spent adsorbent media that are major concerns to farmers and communities.