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2023-01-18 - The School of Chemical Sciences will recognize the winners and finalists of the 2022 Science Image Challenge during an Award Ceremony at 4 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2023, in the Chemistry Library in Noyes Laboratory. 

2023-01-06 - The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded seven new team projects in the second year of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats. The Mehta research group will collaborate with USDA researchers on an African Swine Fever Virus project.

2022-12-22 - Platform developed by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team led by chemistry professor Angad Mehta can be adapted to a range of current and emerging RNA viruses for development of antiviral medications and live attenuated vaccine candidates.

2022-12-22 - Illinois chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers, which set the stage for a recent phase I clinical trial of PAC-1, which spurs programmed cell death in cancer cells.

2022-12-15 - A PhD candidate at Brown University, Kocheril graduated from Illinois in the Class of 2016 and recently returned to his alma mater to present his doctoral research as the recipient of the Brown University Graduate Ambassador Award in chemistry.

2022-12-06 - The Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering are awarded to innovative early-career scientists and engineers pursuing new areas of research. Tang is an alum of Professor Wilfred van der Donk's research group.

2022-11-30 - Benita Katzenellenbogen, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of Chemistry at Illinois, led a study that discovered the stimulation of estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast...

2022-11-29 - Illinois researchers in chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering have discovered and characterized new compounds that have the potential to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. The collaborative project utilized a laboratory automation system at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology to evaluate and assemble multiple synthetic gene pathways from hundreds of genes at once.

2022-11-28 - A long-time runner and biker, the Illinois chemistry professor was supported in the competition in Switzerland by a crew that included Lloyd Munjanja, an assistant dean in the College of LAS who is also a runner and cyclist, and Jay Yost, the COO of Owens Funeral Home who is an ultracyclist.

2022-11-30 - In this study led by Professor Jonathan Sweedler, researchers used pancreatic islets from healthy human donors, prediabetic patients, and patients who had Type 2 diabetes to learn more about how pancreatic cells communicate with each other.

2022-11-18 - A new study led by Qian Chen, an Illinois professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry, applies a new electron microscopy technique, called four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy, that allows a highly focused probe to collect images of the inner workings of batteries. The research team includes Paul Braun, an affiliate professor of chemistry, and Andrew Gewirth...

2022-11-17 - A group of Illinois researchers including chemistry professor Martin Burke, affiliate professor Charles Schroeder, chemistry postdoctoral researcher Vandana Rathore, and chemistry graduate student Nicholas Angello led an international team that combined powerful artificial intelligence and a molecule-making machine to find the best conditions for automated complex chemistry.

2022-11-07 - The annual fall conference features oral and poster presentations highlighting the research of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences at UIUC and other institutions and also features keynote speaker Jennifer Tasneem, career services coordinator for the School of Chemical Sciences at UIUC.

2022-11-07 - Illinois chemistry researchers developed an NIR light-activated nanogel that delivered a powerful chemotherapy drug to breast cancer tumors in mice with a high degree of accuracy and significantly shrunk the tumor without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.

2022-11-01 - Michael Pence, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry working under Professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López, uses microfabricated devices to measure electrochemical dynamics, both at the electrode surface and in solution. He presented his research at the Beckman Institute Graduate Student Seminar.