Professor Linda Doerrer awarded a 3-Year NSF-CHE 3 Renewal
Prof. Doerrer was recently awarded a 3 Year renewal of her National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry (NSF-CHE) Grant titled: Oxidation Catalysis with 3d Complexes Bearing Fluorinated Alkoxide Ligands. This will help Prof. Doerrer and her research group continue their investigation into oxidation catalysis. The project will focus on developing more effective and sustainable catalytic […]
Stephanie Beach, of the Doerrer Group, wins prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship
Stephanie Beach, of the Doerrer Group, recently won a prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship! The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected […]
Pu-Ting Dong Wins SPIE Photonics West Translational Research Best Paper Award
Research at Boston University’s Photonics Center reporting on a drug-free photonic approach to eliminating methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) earned Pu-Ting Dong (BU Chemistry Student, Dr. Ji-Xen Cheng Group) the SPIE Photonics West 2018 Translational Research Award. Translational Research Symposium Chairs Bruce J. Tromberg of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Center at the University of California, Irvine (USA) […]
Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler Award a $975k Grant from DARPA
We are happy to announce that Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler was recently awarded a $975,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled “High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) for Reaction Screening.” The funding, which will last a year, will help Professor Beeler and his Co-PI’s, Professors Scott Schaus and John Porco of Chemistry and […]
Professor Arturo Vegas Awarded a Two-Year Grant from Combined Therapeutics
We are happy to announce that Assistant Professor Arturo Vegas was recently awarded a $255,000 grant from Combined Therapeutics. This nontraditional corporate funding, which will last for 2 Years, will help Professor Vegas as he aims to reduce the immunogenicity and alter the tissue tropism of viral-based therapies. Congratulations to Dr. Vegas for this exciting […]
Professor John Porco selected as the new Samour Family Professor of Chemistry
It with great pleasure that we announce Professor John Porco has just been selected by the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Dean Ann Cudd to be our Samour Family Professor of Chemistry for the 2018 – 2023 term. This endowed Chaired position in the Boston University Chemistry Department was first established in 2003 by Carlos […]
Professor Linda Doerrer Awarded Two-Year Grant from The American Chemical Society
We are happy to announce that Associate Professor Linda Doerrer was recently awarded a $110,000, grant titled “Lanthanide-Based Polymerization Catalysts with Water Resistant Ligands” from The American Chemical Society. The funding, which will last for 2 Years, will help Professor Doerrer explore a family of O-donor ligands, both aryloxide and alkoxide, that are heavily fluorinated […]
Melissa Marquez, 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient
Melissa Marquez, a second-year graduate student in Professor Deborah Perlstein’s group, has recently received a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry with a minor in mathematics from Mount Saint Mary’s University and as an undergraduate conducted research in Dr. Eric Stemp’s lab focusing on DNA-protein cross-linking resulting from […]
Professor Xi Ling receives Boston University Provost’s Career Development Professorship
Please join us in congratulating Professor Xi Ling who has just been selected to receive a University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. This award is given to a a junior faculty member who shows exceptional promise, and is particularly focussed on advancing the participation and success of women in the area of Life Sciences. This is a three-year […]
Job Opening: Chemical Instrumentation Center Seeks Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation Specialist.
The Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation Specialist in the Chemical Instrumentation Center reports to the Center Director, and works closely with the Center Director and other Instrumentation Specialists, as well as research and instructional faculty and students. The Specialist will hold a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry or related fields, with strong expertise in Proteomics Mass Spectrometry, […]