A team led by chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and former graduate student Emily Geddes (PhD, '22) has discovered the physical and chemical rules for overcoming the defenses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium responsible for tens of thousands of hospital infections every year in the U.S.
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BTN Documentary: "The New Normal"A Big Ten Network documentary details the 2020 journey of researchers from various disciplines across the University of Illinois campus, including the Department of Chemistry, to create a fast and inexpensive COVID-19 test to ensure that students, faculty and staff could remain safe and healthy during the pandemic.
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Anisotropic ArtThis false colored transmission electron microscopy image of gold nanorods was selected a finalist in the SCS Science Image Challenge and was submitted by chemistry graduate student Nathan Forney in the Murphy Lab.
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Discovering natural products with speedGraduate students and postdoctoral researcher explain their interdisciplinary, collaborative project that integrates AI and machine learning with automation.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the journal Nature that a new antifungal molecule, devised by tweaking the structure of prominent antifungal drug Amphotericin B, has the potential to harness the drug’s power against fungal infections while doing away with its toxicity.
A graduate student from India, Bandyopadhyay was drawn to the Illinois chemistry graduate program by research related to photoacoustic applications of porphyrin. In his second year, he has a first author paper under review for publication, was recognized as a teaching assistant with the Zumdahl Teaching Award and is involved in multiple graduate student organizations.
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- A new study led by professor Ying Diao brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that can do things their traditional silicon counterparts cannot – harness the power of chirality, a non-superimposable mirror image.
- An anticancer compound developed in the collaborative labs of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Paul Hergenrother, a professor of chemistry at Illinois, and David Shapiro, a professor of biochemistry, has been licensed for pre-clinical development. The biotech company Oncoteq recently...
- The Chemistry at Illinois faculty member received the alumni award for contributions to sonochemistry and chemical sensing, which have advanced the field of medical imaging and facilitated lifesaving treatments for cancer and sepsis patients.
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Dr. Gilbert P. Haight Jr., best known for his pioneering work in chemical education, died on Monday, April 17, 2015 of natural causes. Known to family and friends as "Gil", Dr. Haight spent his professional life as a professor of chemistry, exploring and perfecting the delivery of scientific education to college students in a career that spanned the globe. Born in Seattle on June 8, 1922, Haight spent his early years on Bainbridge Island. Gil graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1939, attended Stanford University as an undergraduate then Princeton University where he received his PhD in...
Research Areas in Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
