# @nu_cheme on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-23T13:57:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ChemE-Northeastern University (@nu_cheme) — https://gondola.cc/nu_cheme

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New year, new seminar speaker! We are so excited to kick off this semester's seminar series by welcoming Professor Emmanuel (Manolis) Tzanakakis to campus! Professor Tzanakakis teaches Chemical & Biological Engineering at Tufts University.

Biography: Manolis Tzanakakis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University, with appointments in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology program at Tufts Medicine, and the Graduate Program in Pharmacology and Drug Development. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN) and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the UMN Stem Cell Institute and the Diabetes Center at the University of California–San Francisco. His group focuses on stem cell engineering and bioprocessing, developing cellular therapies for diabetes, optogenetic engineering of cells and tissues, especially the endocrine pancreas, and producing recombinant biologics. Professor Tzanakakis has received the James D. Watson Investigator Award and fellowships from the NIH and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. His research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, New York State, and the Department of Defense. He is an AIMBE Fellow.

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