The American Chemical Society has awarded Rebecca Ulrich of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the 15th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024–2026. Ulrich will conduct her fellowship studies with Deborah Hung of the Broad Institute starting Sept. 1. Read more…
Category: Awards
For receiving award, fellowships, etc.

Congratulations to former student Dr. Matthew Boudreau for winning the Scarborough Award for Graduate/Post-Graduate Excellence from the ACS!
https://www.acsmedchem.org/robert-m-scarborough-award-graduate-excellence-acs-medicinal-chemistry-division
The Phase 1 clinical trial of PAC-1 in late-stage cancer patients shows responses in patients with neuroendocrine tumors

Congratulations to graduate student Rebecca Ulrich for being awarded a F31 predoctoral fellowship from the NIH/NIAID!

Congratulations to graduate student Matthew Boudreau for being awarded a prestigious fellowship from NCI!
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the CCIL Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel therapeutic, ERSO, that successfully eradicates hormone-positive (ER+) breast cancer in multiple preclinical mouse models, and continues to be translated towards the clinic. […]

Congratulations to Dr. Steven Motika for being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH!

Congratulations to Riley Svec
Riley Svec was awarded a position on the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant. He was an Advanced Graduate Student speaker at the 15th Annual Symposium on Friday, October 4, 2019.

Congratulations to Kristen Muñoz for being awarded a position on the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant!
Gram-negative bacteria have emerged that are resistant to most antibiotics, a troubling trend since a new class of antibiotics for Gram-negative pathogens has not been introduced in the clinic in 50 years. Central to the issue with discovering novel antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria is the limited understanding of the physicochemical features that affect cell-membrane permeability and […]

Congratulations to former graduate student Dr. Michelle Richter
Dr. Richter received the ACS Scarborough Award for Graduate Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry! See mention of Michelle in Boston Globe story.
Congratulations to two students for receiving NSF Research Fellowships
We congratulate graduate student Martin Garcia Chavez and undergraduate Amanda Cowfer for being awarded NSF Research Fellowships!