UC Santa Cruz - Chemistry Department

Center for High Content Functional Annotation (HiFAN) will be established

Program is designed to develop new tools to push the frontier of natural products with the support of a $2.4M/3 year NIH grant

Biochemist Carrie Partch honored

Partch has received the Aschoff's Ruler, the award is the top honor in her field

NIH grant supports development of novel drug for stroke treatment

Drug discovery grant funds quest by UCSC chem professor Ted Holman to bring new drug treatment for stroke to clinical trials

State program funds lung cancer research

Biomedical researchers at UC Santa Cruz have won major funding to investigate lung cancer

UCSC Magazine Preventing Plastic's Perils

$1.5 million awarded for powerful new instrument

Will provide state-of-the-art platform for performing DEER (double electron-electron resonance)

UC Santa Cruz establishes a Bay Area facility in electron paramagnetic resonance with a $1.5-million grant from NIH's High-End Instrumentation program

New catalyst is a step toward clean fuel

UCSC grad student Yi Peng, first author of a paper on a novel catalyst for hydrogen production, also designed the cover image for the Jan. 10 issue of the journal "ChemSusChem."

Outstanding Investigator Award

Sgourakis Lab receives $1.9M/5 year NIH Outstanding Investigator Award to study Tcell signaling for immunotherapy

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Materials Science and Engineering Initiative focuses on sustainability

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