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Environmental Health Scientist Speaks at Chemistry Convocation
The Director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports, Dr. Urvashi Rangan, was the Distinguished Alumni Speaker at this year’s Chemistry Convocation (May 16, 2015). Dr. Rangan received her BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1990, doing undergraduate research in organic chemistry with Prof. John Snyder. She received her PhD in […]
Chemistry Welcomes Arturo Vegas to the Faculty
We are happy to announce that Arturo José Vegas will be joining the Department on July 1 as Assistant Professor. His research will aim to develop novel targeting therapeutics and delivery systems for selective cancer chemotherapy, immunomodulation, and diabetic immunosuppression. At the same time, the Vegas laboratory will create a general and systematic approach to […]
Grinstaff Receives Inaugural DeLisi Award and Lecture
The College of Engineering has honored interdisciplinary scientist, Professor Mark Grinstaff (Chemistry, BME, MSE, MED), with the inaugural Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture. Professor Grinstaff will present the Lecture on Thursday, April 2 at 4 p.m. in the Photonics Colloquium Room (PHO 906). In the lecture, “Clinically Informed Biomaterial Design and Engineering,” he will explore how over […]
NSF Video Features BU Biophotonics Research
The National Science Foundation’s on line magazine, Science Nation, is featuring a video entitled “Biophotonics poised to make major breakthroughs in medicine.” Focusing on the Boston University Center for Biophotonic Sensors and Systems (CBSS), the video shows how engineers and scientists collaborate with industry to realize the potential of light waves in the diagnosis […]
NIH Funds Alzheimer’s Research Addressing Fundamental Questions
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a 4-year grant to computational chemists, Professor John Straub and his colleague at the University of Maryland (UMD), Professor Devarajan (Dave) Thirumulai, on “Probing the role of membrane and cholesterol on APP‐C99 structure and dynamics.” Protein aggregation in the brain is linked to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). This […]
Sean Elliott Promoted to Full Professor
Professor Sean Elliott, who joined the Department of Chemistry in 2002 and was tenured in 2008, has been promoted to full Professor. Professor Elliott’s research is at the intersection of biochemical processes and electron-transfer chemistry. By studying how electrons are moved within and between proteins in Biology, he and his group provide a novel, […]
Whitty Lab Paper Chosen as Journal’s “Paper of the Week”
A publication from the research group of Professor Adrian Whitty has been selected by the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) as “Paper of the Week.” This distinction is conferred upon JBC papers that the Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members consider to represent the “top 2% of JBC papers in overall importance.” The paper, “Quantitative […]
Porco Lab Publication Appears in High Impact Journal
The high-impact science journal, Nature Chemistry, has published a paper by Professor John A. Porco, Jr., and his colleagues reporting on “Atropselective syntheses of (-) and (+) rugulotrosin A utilizing point-to-axial chirality transfer” (2 February 2015). Rugulotrosin A is a symmetric dimer isolated from an uncharacterised species of Penicillium. The compound displays significant antibacterial activity […]
NIH Funds Schaus Lab to Develop Asymmetric Boron Chemistry
The cornerstone of organic synthesis is the development of novel chemical methodology that addresses key limitations in efficiency and reactivity. These synthetic methodologies are best demonstrated in the synthesis of biologically relevant molecules such as current drugs and compounds of study. The goal of this 5-year NIH-funded research program being conducted by Professor Scott Schaus […]
Chao Qi Receives 2015 Vertex Scholar Award
Mr. Chao Qi is the recipient of the 2015 Vertex Scholar Award. He is a 4th year graduate student in the group of Prof. John A. Porco. Chao was selected based on his demonstrated excellence in organic chemistry. He has developed extremely elegant and enabling synthetic methodology towards two different natural products, making reactions work, […]