Department of Chemistry News

Research


October 24, 2008

Pradip Rathod receives Gates Foundation grant

Rathod’s work to combat malaria is one of five UW projects to be funded by the new Grand Challenges Explorations in Global Health initiative.


November 9, 2007

UW-developed newborn screening for lysosomal storage diseases to begin in Illinois

The State of Illinois now requires infants to be screened for five different disease-related cellular enzymes using technology developed by UW faculty.


October 4, 2007

Daniel Chiu receives Life Sciences Discovery Fund Grant

Chiu receives one of the first six grants awarded by the LSDF, receiving $760,000 to fund his breast cancer research.


August 10, 2007

CENTC awarded $15M NSF grant

CENTC is the NSF-funded Chemical Bonding Center based at UW, and is the only Center of its kind to receive Phase II funding.


May 24, 2007

Pradip Rathod and research team receive MMV grant

Professor Pradipsinh Rathod’s team will receive a Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) award.


April 29, 2007

Michael Gelb receives NIH MERIT Award

Gelb’s research is in the area of medicinal enzymology, and the funding will support his work with phospholipase A2.


March 30, 2006

UW research collaboration yields low-cost infant disease screening

Gelb and Turecek part of a team that has developed a panel of tandem mass spectrometry assays for early detection of several different lysosomal storage disorders.



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