Congratulations to Professor Andy Borovik on being named the 2019 Richard C. Tolman Award Recipient by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society.

Professor Borovik will be honored at the Tolman Award Dinner on September 16, 2020 at the UCI University Club, further details about the award and the event can be found here.

Congratulations to Professor Andrej Lupták, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, and molecular biology & biochemistry, on being named a Guggenheim fellow! Professor Luptak plans to work on the discovery and development of RNAs regulated by light.

These are the projects in Chemistry that have been approved as essential research as of 4/13/20:

Project Name/Description
Faculty

Drug discovery to fight COVID-19
Rachel Martin, Vy Dong, James Nowick, Doug Tobias, Carter Butts

Development of a Virus BioResistor (VBR) for the Detection of SARS-VoC-2 Antibodies in Blood Serum
Reginald M. Penner, Gregory Weiss

Hydrogen Bonding Cavity Motifs About Metal Ion
Andy Borovik

Congratulations to Renee Link for being awarded the 2020 Tom Angell Fellowship! This fellowship is intended to honor Tom Angell’s contributions as our Graduate Counselor to graduate student wellness and retention.