02/16/2022 - Alumnus Dan Hanus honors the good work and deeds of Rebecca "Becky" Simon, his advisor in the School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois when he was a student, by establishing a scholarship in the name...
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02/09/2022 - This study led by Deborah Leckband, a professor in the departments of chemistry, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and bioengineering, found that cadherins that bond with growth factor receptors...
02/08/2022 - Illinois researchers Martin Burke, professor of chemistry, and Daniel J. Blair, postdoctoral researcher, along with collaborators at Revolution Medicines Inc. have developed a new class of chemical...
02/08/2022 - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named a diverse group of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy as...
02/04/2022 - A member of the Illinois chemistry faculty since 1964, colleagues and alumni share their memories of the Scotland-born professor who was known not only as an accomplished crystallographer and for his...
02/04/2022 - A research team led by Chemistry at Illinois alum Rommie Amaro, who is a University of California San Diego professor, has modeled for the first time the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus inside...
01/27/2022 - Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten and graduate students Zane Thornburg, Benjamin Gilbert and Troy Brier developed a three-dimensional, fully dynamic kinetic model of a living minimal cell that mimics...
01/26/2022 - Fourteen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including chemistry professor Martin Burke, have been elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
01/21/2022 - The study demonstrates how this NEO multimechanophore not only releases controlled amounts of carbon monoxide but also emits a fluorescence visually showing the amount, making the dual-functioning...
01/20/2022 - Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In a new study, researchers at the Beckman Institute developed a chemical process to mimic this arboreal...
01/20/2022 - A third-year graduate student, Susanna Barrett weaves into her busy schedule time for mentoring other students both outside the lab and in the lab where she is currently doing a lot of foundational...
- Atomic structure of antifungal drug confirms unusual mechanism, opens door to less-toxic derivatives
12/09/2021 - Illinois chemistry professors Martin Burke and Taras Pogorelov co-led a team that mapped the unusual aggregate structure of the antifungal drug amphotericin B, illuminating the path to develop less-...
12/07/2021 - Chemistry undergraduate student Andrew Sunwoo Lee is one of 20 undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who were recognized during the 2021 the...
12/01/2021 - A multi-institutional team of researchers will explore how to manipulate an energetically inexpensive electrostatic charge transfer mechanism to capture and release carbon dioxide.
11/30/2021 - Working last summer as a research and development intern with Mediomics, a small biotech start-up company in St. Louis, graduate student Subhendu Pandit discovered how much he enjoys research, design...