News about significant research accomplishments.
Grinstaff Receives BU MSE Innovation Grant
Professor Mark Grinstaff is a recipient of one of the first Boston University MSE Innovation Grants for his research proposal Real-time control of drug release from superhydrophobic biomaterials using clinical ultrasound. These awards from Boston University’s College of Engineering, Division of Materials Science & Engineering aim to encourage innovation and risk taking.
Elliott Group Research Featured in Biochemistry
The Biochemistry Journal reports on research conducted by Professor Sean Elliott and his Research Group and their collaborators at MIT; Professor Catherine Drennan and her Research Group. Their research provides strong evidence that Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide (FAD) plays a structural role in the formation of tetrameric AidB. While their studies clearly show FAD-dependent oligomerization of […]
CMLD Researchers Publish Paper on “Remodeling” Natural Products in Nature Chemistry
CMLD-BU researchers Bradley Balthaser, Meghan Maloney, Aaron Beeler, John Porco & John Snyder, in a paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry [23 OCTOBER 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1178], present a new approach to accessing new, biorelevant structures by “remodeling” natural products. In this case, they demonstrate how the natural product derivative fumagillol can been remodeled […]
Chemistry Receives NSF Multi-User Research Instrument Award
The Boston University Department of Chemistry has received funds from the NSF MRI program to acquire a Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectrometer, which will enhance the research of scientists in several departments encompassing biological and organic chemistry. In addition to the Principal Investigator, Professor Karen Allen, there are five major users at BU whose research will […]
Drug Mechanism of Action Using Bioinformatic Pathway Analysis
Professor Scott Schaus and Graduate Student Lisa Christadore are co-authors of: Network-based prediction for sources of transcriptional dysregulation using latent pathway identification analysis Published in PNAS in July 2011, the paper represents their collaborative work with researchers in the BU Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Eric Kolaczyk and Graduate Student Lisa Pham. It reports […]
Two Groups Awarded BWF Travel Grants
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) uses Collaborative Research Travel Grants to facilitate biomedical research among laboratories in the US and abroad. This February, two Chemistry groups received these competitive awards. One of the grants will support Professor Pinghua Liu and his graduate student, Jinzhao Shen, to go to Beijing to work in the laboratory of […]
Insights into Protein-Misfolding Diseases
The work of Professor John Straub and his collaborator at the University of Maryland, Professor Dave Thirumalai, demonstrates that when aggregation occurs in aqueous solution between amyloid or prion peptides …
Tullius Research Featured in C&E News
The C&E News article, “Putting DNA in a Bind,” gave an overview of a symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Boston on how small molecules interact specifically with DNA and regulate gene expression.
Wang Research Featured in Journal of Chemical Physics and Honored at the ACS National Meeting
The cover of the Aug. 28th, 2010 issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics, highlights a free-energy diagram calculated with a new enhanced sampling method developed by Professor Feng Wang and his Group (J. Chem. Phys. 113, 084101 {2010]). Their method mimics features of a coarse-grained simulation at the atomic scale. Recent validations performed by […]
Deborah Perlstein joins Chemistry Faculty
Professor Deborah Perlstein, an enzymologist whose research is at the interface of biology and chemistry, has joined the Department (July 2010). As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Suzanne Walker at the Harvard Medical School (2006-2010), she studied the sugar polymerases that build the bacterial cell wall. This work, which was recently featured […]