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Human cancer cell cultures in the lab of David Heppner. Heppner's team recently found that faster binding for targeted covalent inhibitor drugs was linked to greater potency, but only to a certain point

A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will support campus workshops on cutting-edge, computational chemistry techniques that can accurately model quantum dynamics and other complex phenomena occurring within materials. The grant’s principal investigator is Alexey Akimov, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, who led an NSF-supported pilot version of the workshop from 2021-23.

Chris Li has been selected to be one of the 2025 ACS Measurement Science Rising Star awardees. The award is intended to celebrate early-career researchers breaking new areas in the chemical sciences. All the awardees will be collected and promoted in a special issue at the end of the year.