Namuunzul Otgontseren, a junior studying chemistry who also works in Professor Jefferson Chan’s research group, has been awarded a Beckman Institute Undergraduate Fellowship.

Supported by funding from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the fellowship offers University of Illinois undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary research during the summer. Otgontseren is working to create the derivatives of the NitroxylFluor, which can help optimize the study of nitroxyl (HNO), a highly reactive molecule. It can be a possible treatment for the prevention of ischemia-reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, and alcoholism so the project might lead to the information on HNO needed to be used as a treatment.