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Category: News
Former Postdoc Prof. Sarah Tasker Featured in C&E News
Former Postdoc Prof. Sarah Tasker Featured in C&E News Sarah Tasker, an assistant professor of chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, received an ACS PRF grant in 2018 with the proposal “Synthesis of Oxetanes via a Formal Formylation.”
Rebecca Ulrich awarded the 15th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship
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…
New antibiotic kills pathogenic bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes, see Nature paper
Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut. Read More
NEW: Rules for compound accumulation in P. aeruginosa published in Nature.
UIUC Press Release Team discovers rules for breaking into Pseudomonas Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have found a way to get antibacterial drugs through the nearly impenetrable outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that – once it infects a person – is notoriously difficult to treat. Read more
NEW: A compound from the Hergenrother/Shapiro collaboration has been licensed and is advancing toward treatment of breast cancer.
Unprecedented Compound Takes a Step Toward Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common form of breast cancer, affecting approximately 75% of breast cancer patients. In advanced and metastatic form, it is lethal, claiming the lives of nearly 350,000 individuals annually. Presently, no drug is able to eradicate these advanced tumors. […]
Watch the Big Ten Network documentary on the UIUC COVID saliva test, featuring Dr. Diana Ranoa!
Summary from YouTube: In 2020, the U.S. was in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic without any vaccines in sight. Millions of college students were left wondering when they’d be able to resume in-person instruction. Researchers from various disciplines across the University of Illinois campus decided to create a fast and inexpensive COVID-19 test in […]
Postdoctoral Positions Open in the Hergenrother Lab
There are multiple postdoctoral positions open in the Hergenrother lab, for talented scientists with expertise/interest in either chemistry or biology. Interested individuals with expertise in any of the following areas should apply: • Biochemistry• Cell biology• Cancer biology• Microbiology• Medicinal chemistry• Synthetic chemistry Projects include the following: Interested individuals with expertise in any of the […]