News

2013-01-28 - Professor Hergenrother and coworkers report that tweaking natural products' rings and functional groups could lead to better compound libraries for drug discovery.

2013-01-22 - Professor van der Donk and graduate student Weixin Tang discovered some unexpected enzyme activity in the production of the protein cytolysin by Enterococcus faecalis. This research was highlighted by the UI News Bureau and in Nature Chemical Biology....

2013-01-10 - Professor Mark Grinstaff, who has a joint appointment between the Boston University departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, was named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Charter Fellow in December 2012.

2013-01-08 - The Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) visual indicator technology developed by Professor Ken Suslick and colleagues is being adapted by the U. S. Army in collaboration with Scientific Technologies of Mountain View, CA to identify bilogical agents and test for the spoiling of food, among other uses....

2013-01-07 - Researchers have discovered a new compound that restores the health of mice infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an otherwise dangerous bacterial infection. The new compound targets an enzyme not found in human cells but which is essential to bacterial survival...

2013-01-02 - Wilbur J. Shenk, Jr., beloved husband of the late Jean, died in Naples, FL on Dec. 27, 2012. Born Erie, PA, 1918, graduate of University School, Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and University of Illinois, PhD in Organic Chemistry. Scientific researcher at the National Defense Research...

2012-12-31 - Sumit Ravindra Ashtekar (Gruebele Group) was presented the 2012 Materials Area Dissertation Award on May 8, 2012. The award, which includes a $200 check and a certificate, was presented by area head Professor Catherine Murphy. Ashtekar's talk was entitled "Visualizing Atomic Motions on Amorphous...

2012-12-31 - Professor Yi Lu was named the 2012 winner of the Champaign County Innovation Celebration Discovery Award, sponsored by the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation. The award recognizes an individual or group from the University of Illinois' Urbana Campus who has disclosed to the...

2012-12-31 - Professor Prashant Jain has been named one of seven researchers at UIUC to receive an Institute for Advance Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT) Fellowship. The one year fellowship will enable Prof. Jain to pursue collaborative projects with the researchers and computer technology...

2012-12-31 - A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against many other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into the red blood cells of malaria-infected mice and kills the malaria parasite. The drug...

2012-12-31 - The Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemistry, and the School of Integrative Biology are thrilled to announce the start of the Merit Fellows Scholarship Program this upcoming academic year!

2012-12-31 - Jonathan Sweedler's research developing the content profiles of individual brain cells has been highlighted in Medical Xpress and Bioscience Technology. The research has the possibility to trace the root causes of maladies such as memory loss and chronic pain and was presented last week at...

2012-12-31 - James Spudich (B.S., 1963)-- currently the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease at the Stanford University School of Medicine-- has been chosen to receive the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

2012-12-31 - An antibody-based strategy has considerably widened the range of analytes that can be detected with personal glucose meters, according to new work by Yu Xiang and Yi Lu at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2012-12-31 - Professor Jonathan Sweedler is part of a group of UI researchers led by Cell and Developmental Biology Professor Martha Gilette that have studied metabolism's effect on the body's circadian rhythm. Their research was recently highlighted by the UI News Bureau and in the journal Science....