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Tracing the Mechanisms of the Biological Clock through Interdisciplinary Science:
Senthilvadivel Vajravijayan at WPI-ITbMAt WPI-ITbM, postdoctoral researcher Senthilvadivel Vajravijayan decodes the atomic architecture of circadian clock proteins—work that could lead to drugs restoring disrupted biological rhythms. In a boundary-breaking institute where chemists, biologists, and physicists share open labs, he turns interdisciplinary collaboration into discoveries published in Nature Communications.
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Supernova Tea Time: Robert Quimby and Kavli IPMU, WPI
“I study stars that explode.” From contributing to Nobel Prize-winning research on the accelerating universe to discovering supernovae ten times brighter than any seen before, Robert Quimby found at Kavli IPMU, WPI the perfect launchpad—an ambitious institution “doing big work” to unlock the mysteries of the universe, where personal and professional aspirations aligned.
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Fusing Neuroscience and Mathematics toward Future Clinical Applications in Spinal Cord Injury: YAMAGUCHI Reona at WPI-ASHBi
At WPI-ASHBi, assistant professor YAMAGUCHI Reona is uncovering how the brain recovers motor function after spinal cord injury by integrating neuroscience with mathematical modeling. His discovery that reduced neural inhibition—not increased excitation—drives recovery opens promising new pathways for clinical rehabilitation in an institute built for truly integrated interdisciplinary research, supported by WPI-ASHBi’s unique framework bridging life sciences and advanced mathematics.