2016-08-01 - Chemists led by University of Illinois professor M. Christina White and graduate student Thomas Osberger found that two small-molecule iron catalysts can oxidize chiral amino acids and peptides to an array of unnatural forms, giving researchers more options for developing drug candidates.Posted:
2016-08-01 - Four University of Illinois chemists, Prashant K. Jain, Jeffrey S. Moore, Catherine Jones Murphy and Ralph G. Nuzzo were among the most highly cited authors as determined by Elsevier Scopus Data. They were among the top 300 of all researchers cited. Professor Jain was among the most highly cited in...Posted:- 2016-07-01 - Elena Montoto was awarded a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship.Posted:
2016-06-30 - Three ILLINOIS students won the Judges Choice global innovation award with novel coating process to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Shell Ideas360. The Illinois team is one of five teams and the only team from the United States. As...Posted:
2016-06-01 - Alumnus, Mary-Dell Chilton, a genetic scientist, is a recipient of this year's University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award. She is founding director and vice president of Syngenta, a global biotech giant. Dr. Chilton received her PhD with Professor Lowell Hager, in 1967. During her years at...Posted:
2016-05-01 - Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand, thanks to a $7 million angel investment from an anonymous contributor who originally invested $4 million to help get the compound this far in the drug-approval pipeline.Posted:
2016-05-01 - Paul Hergenrother is the recipient of this year's UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry. He was cited for outstanding contributions to chemical biology and anticancer drug discovery. He is a co-...Posted:
2016-04-01 - Suslick's sensors monitored pollutant exposure of Disney original artwork, like this 1928 'Steamboat Willie' celluloid, during a trip to China © Disney Enterprises, Inc., Courtesy of Walt Disney Animation Research Library.Posted:- 2016-04-01 - Prof. Catherine Murphy presents Melinda Sindoro the 2016 Klemperer Award.Posted:
2016-04-01 - Jeffrey Moore, the Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering, has been named interim director of the Beckman Institute , effective April 16.Posted:- 2016-04-01 - Thirty-six University of Illinois students have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships including 11 students from the Department of Chemistry. Thirteen of the additional 51 accorded honorable mention are Chemistry students. “Thirty-six awardees places us tenth...Posted:
- 2016-02-28 - Kami Hull and Josh Vura-Weis have both been selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards and grants from the National Science Foundation to support their research program.Posted:
2016-02-17 - Members of the laboratory of Prof. Scott Silverman have identified synthetic DNA enzymes that cleave amide bonds, which are fundamental components of proteins. These DNA enzymes were identified by in vitro selection, using modified DNA nucleotides that have protein-like functional groups. The...Posted:
2016-02-01 - Douglas Mitchell is the recipient of the 2016 National Fresenius Award. He was cited for his contributions toward the mechanistic understanding and reengineering of natural product...Posted:
2016-01-31 - A new class of small, thin electronic sensors can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull – crucial health parameters after a brain injury or surgery – then melt away when they are no longer needed, eliminating the need for additional surgery to remove the monitors and reducing the risk...Posted: