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2021-11-08 - A research team, including chemistry professors Emad Tajkhorshid and Paul Hergenrother and PhD student Emily Geddes, invented and tested a new method for determining how chemical compounds interact with proteins in cells. Their approach offers atomic-level insight into the chemical properties that allow some antibiotics to pass through pores in the cell membranes of Gram-negative bacteria.

2021-10-26 - Organized by the Department of Chemistry's ACS Women Chemist Committee, this year's annual event will be virtual and feature a poster session, two seminar speakers and a reception for networking opportunities with all seven researchers.

2021-10-25 - Professor Jefferson Chan and graduate student Melissa Lucero developed the finely-tuned molecular agent that can seek out elusive lung cancer cells for imaging and treatment — an approach that could be used to target other cancers.

2021-10-25 - Beckman Director Jeff Moore has been awarded the Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit.

2021-10-21 - Early detection of sepsis is a critical need in the healthcare industry, and the Illinois research team that includes chemistry professor Hee-Sun Han has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid and accurate point-of-care device for early detection of the life-threatening medical condition.

2021-10-31 - A research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and President of the American Chemical Society, Cheng (PhD, '74) continues to "see future possibilities" in his research developing green chemistry methodologies related to agro-based materials and using them to produce eco-friendly and sustainable products.

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.