Mayuko Isomura, an assistant professor of chemistry, has received an early-career grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Isomura was selected to receive a Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) grant, which is a competitive funding program for...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their pioneering work on nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis—the "Soai reaction". As the exact mechanisms of...
Xiaotang Lu, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award from...
The Texas A&M Local Section of the American Chemical Society and Texas A&M University Chemistry Department have awarded Wilfred A. van der Donk, Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the...
The Beckman Institute has recognized a new cohort of Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship recipients. These students are working on projects related to material science, chemistry, brain functions, cancer and other diseases. Read on to learn more about the three fellowship recipients in chemistry...
The protein transthyretin can unfold and dissociate in a previously unknown way, possibly contributing to a rare and deadly form of amyloidosis, new findings from Scripps Research and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reveal.The...
A company that was originally launched by chemistry’s Martin D. Burke is the maker of a new experimental drug that may be a gamechanger for patients fighting pancreatic cancer.In a recent Phase 3 clinical trial, the oral medication daraxonrasib that is made by ...
