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    CCIL Scientist’s Advances in Brain Cancer Research Leads to $3M NCI Award

    Several Cancer Center at Illinois members, including chemistry Professor Paul Hergenrother, are joining forces with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Georgetown University on an expansive project targeting improved treatment for glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
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    Study: Imaging agent identifies breast cancer patients who are unlikely to benefit from hormone therapy

    Using a PET imaging agent designed by chemistry Professor John Katzenellenbogen, a new clinical study shows the ability to identify which breast cancer patients are likely to benefit from a hormone therapy that’s commonly used as a treatment for estrogen receptor-positive cancer but effective in only about half of all patients.
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    As a senior manufacturing engineer at Abbott, Illinois chemistry alumnus Nicholas Ndiege (PhD, ’08, Shannon, Masel) is responsible for manufacturing engineering activities related to production of the company’s HeartMate 3 LVAD (left ventricular assist device).
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    In a study led by affiliate faculty member Huimin Zhao, researchers have developed a direct cloning method that aims to accelerate large-scale discovery of novel natural products.
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  • Rohit Bhargava Named OSA 2021 Ellis R. Lippincott Award Recipient
    An affiliate faculty member in chemistry, Rohit Bhargava was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), this award recognizes significant innovations in the...
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  • Chemistry professors ranked among world's most influential researchers in new study
    Several chemistry faculty members are among the dozens of professors in the College of LAS who rank among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers since the mid-1990s, according to a new study based on a dataset that includes about 8 million researchers worldwide who published at least five papers in...
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    by Dr. R S. Juvet, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, ASU Professor Emeritus Therald Moeller, past Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at ASU, died November 24 in Broken Arrow, OK, at the age of 84. During the 45 years Professor Moeller was active in teaching and research, he guided the laboratory research of 43 PhD students, 20 Postdoctoral Research Students, 11 MS, and 25 BS students for a total of 99 research students in inorganic chemistry. Of these students, 39 are now professors themselves at universities throughout the U.S. and in Taiwan, Spain, India, Japan, Brazil,...
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