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2021-10-15 - Chemistry professors included on The Analytical Scientist's annual Power List of the top 100 analytical scientists in the world.

2021-10-13 - Project involves creating a rapid, ultra-sensitive, and inexpensive virus-sensing technology with star-shaped DNA nano-structures that can recognize and capture viral particles and emit a fluorescent signal, which can be read instantly with lab equipment.

2021-10-11 - John Katzenellenbogen and other researchers collaborated on the development of DMERIs, antiestrogens that work by a novel dual mechanism, interacting with the estrogen receptor at two sites in contrast to currently used antiestrogens that operate through only one site.

2021-09-30 - Markita Landry, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will be recognized with the 2020 and 2021 alumni award winners during Homecoming Week activities.

2021-10-04 - Chemistry professor Martin Burke is the associate dean for research at Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, which represents a new concept in the field of health care education.

2021-08-01 - Graduate student Melissa Lucero has been selected the 2021-22 winner of the Professor Gary Schuster Mentoring Scholarship. This graduate scholarship was established by Dr. De-Kai Loo and Dr. Jianjian Zhang in 2018 in honor of Schuster, who was a professor of chemistry at Illinois...

2021-09-28 - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology features student researcher Melissa Lucero, a fifth-year PhD student studying chemistry and chemical biology in the lab of chemistry professor Jefferson Chan, a Beckman Institute professor. In the Chan lab, Lucero focuses on developing chemical tools to study disease states and biological processes via in vivo molecular imaging

2021-09-29 - Researchers in chemistry professor Jefferson Chan's lab have developed a small-molecule probe that allows for rapid and non-invasive visualization of disease progression in Wilson’s disease and some metastatic cancers. As a diagnostic tool, this probe could reduce the need for invasive procedures.

2021-09-30 - A research team led by chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler has developed a new technique to rapidly isolate and chemically characterize individual organelles within cells, revealing the chemical composition of organelles that control biological growth, development and disease.

2021-03-31 - A technique that researchers call Photonic Resonator Interferometric Scattering Microscopy, or PRISM, sees and counts viruses or proteins from a sample in real time without any chemicals or dyes. Developed by a team that includes chemistry researcher Xing Wang, PRISM could lead to development of a new class of devices for rapid diagnostics and viral load monitoring, including HIV and the virus...

2021-09-23 - A new sensor developed by a research team, which was co-led by Yi Lu, a professor emeritus of chemistry, can distinguish infectious viruses from noninfectious ones thanks to selective DNA fragments and sensitive nanopore technology.

2021-09-07 - The Vilcek Foundation selected Markita del Carpio Landry (PhD, '12) to receive the Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is one of several foundation prizes celebrating foreign-born leaders in science, dance, and biotechnology.

2021-09-06 - Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used advanced computational methodologies to successfully simulate the capsid disassembly step of hepatitis B viral infection at an unprecedented atomic level.

2021-09-03 - In honor of their PhD advisors, Dekai Loo (PhD, ’87, Beak) and Jianjian Zhang (PhD, ’89, Schuster) established scholarships as a way of passing on the support they received from their Illinois chemistry graduate school advisors, the late Peter Beak and Gary Schuster.

2021-09-03 - Graduate student leaders of several organizations share why they are involved in various Chemistry at Illinois student groups and share advice for first-year graduate students as well as memories of their first year in the PhD program.