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Recent News
Spring 2020 Chemistry PhD/MS Graduates
Cen Chen (#256 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Synthesis of Selenium and Tellurium Modified Nucleic Acid for DNA Crystallization, Structure and Function Studies” on Wednesday,...read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Gangli Wang on receiving an NSF award to develop COVID-19 sensors
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gangli Wang on receiving an NSF RAPID award (7/1/20 – 6/30/21; CHE-2034498) of approximately $200,000 to develop “Microelectrode Array Sensors for SARS-CoV-2 and other RNA Viruses.” Dr. Wang...read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Poon on receiving a new NIH research award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gregory Poon on receiving a new NIH R21 research award of $428,042 for the next two years (R21GM137160; 5/2020 – 4/2022) to study the osmotic pressure in cells using “A cellular osmotic...read more ❯
The Winners of Georgia State's Annual Chemistry Student Awards are….
Dear Chemistry Faculty, Staff, and Students,
Each year, the GSU Department of Chemistry recognizes a number of Undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. level chemistry students who exemplify the best practices and achievements...read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Donald Hamelberg on receiving a new NSF award
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Donald Hamelberg on receiving a new NSF award from the Division of Molecular Bioscience of $971K (MCB-2018144, 2020-2024) “Fine tuning of protein functional atomistic dynamics in molecular...read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Binghe Wang on his new $3.5mil NIH R01 Award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Binghe Wang on his new NIH R01 grant of approximately $3.5 million for 5 years (1R01DK119202-01A1; 2019-2024) in “Examining Carbon Monoxide to Treat Inflammatory Conditions using Experimental...read more ❯
Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Yang on receiving 2 (two) NIH Awards
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jenny Yang on receiving 2(two) grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The first (1R33CA235319-01A1) is to investigate the “Multi-color Mapping of Cancer Molecular Signatures and...read more ❯
Publication in Science Advances from the Poon lab
Congratulations to Suela and all the co-authors for a major publication in Sciences Advances. This paper unveils a new self-regulatory mechanism by PU.1, a divergent member of the ETS family of transcription factor. PU.1 is a key...read more ❯
New Method to Detect Early-Stage Cancer Identified by Georgia State, Emory Research Team
The discovery could have wide-ranging impacts, including more effective diagnosis and precision treatment, and less risk to patients.read more ❯
Fall 2019 Chemistry PhD/MS Graduates
Joy Ballard (#249 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “From Discovery to Implementation of Organic Chemistry Learning Models in Secondary and Post-Secondary Classrooms,” on Friday,...read more ❯
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