Accomplishments: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) was featured in the article, “Neuromuscular Disease Research: Going Strong," published in the special 75th anniversary issue of Quest, which is dedicated to the unstoppable community the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) serves every day.
MDA is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United…
Chandra Bhattacharya (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded a $1.88M Early Stage Investigator (ESI) R35 MIRA grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). This prestigious five-year award will support the Bhattacharya lab's research on developing innovative lipid nanoparticle platforms for targeted mRNA delivery -…
A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed a lipid nanoparticle platform that can deliver mRNA intravenously to the spleen with 99% selectivity. This work was published in Small, titled "Endogenous Corticosteroid Derived Lipid Nanoparticles (Cortico LNPs) Enable Selective mRNA Delivery to…
Radiochemistry Ph.D. candidate Becca Manns (Chemistry) is the recipient of a prestigious Rickover Fellowship from the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF). The appointment, which begins Sept. 1, is offered to students in pursuit of graduate study and research supportive of the mission and goals of…
First-year radiochemistry Ph.D. student Colette Towles (Chemistry) was awarded a summer internship at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and was highlighted in a recent video published by SRNL. The working group at SRNL where Towles interned endeavors to determine the absorption properties of low activity radioactive waste using…
A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed a lipid nanoparticle platform that can deliver mRNA intravenously to the pancreas with an unprecedented 99% selectivity. This work was published in Advanced Materials, titled "Reengineering Endogenous Targeting Lipid Nanoparticles (ENDO) for…
Ph.D. candidate Josie Libero-Cruzado and Ph.D. student Becca Manns, along with faculty advisors Frederic Poineau and Dan Koury (all Chemistry and Biochemistry), recently published an article in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Their research, "Diffusion and phase formation in the γ-uranium-technetium system," expands on known uranium-…
Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Krzysztof Sobczak from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland have been awarded a grant through the “Initiative of Excellence - Research University” program, funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. This grant will support…
Manisha Gun (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded the RNA Society Research Presentation Fellowship to support her presentation on RNA misprocessing in myotonic dystrophy at the 2025 RNA Society Meeting.
Radiochemistry professor Frederic Poineau (Chemistry) was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering. The article titled, Uranium fluoride micromaterials: a new frontier in nuclear engineering, explores recent advancements in the synthesis and application of uranium fluoride micromaterials, emphasizing their…
Łukasz Sznajder (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received an Early Career Research in Myotonic Dystrophy Award ($140K) from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. His project, titled “Probing Expanded RNA Species and Their Role in DM2,” focuses on understanding how specific RNA molecules containing expanded CCUG repeats may contribute to myotonic…
Arumugam Jayaraman’s (Chemistry and Biochemistry) research engagement with researchers in Germany led to a publication in Wiley’s Angewandte Chemie International Edition journal. The work presents our endeavors to replicate the organometallic chemistry of transition metals using a boron-centered main-group compound called borylene. This work…