Dr. Elizabeth Amin – Grant-in-Aid

Department of Medicinal Chemistry associate professor Elizabeth Amin was awarded a $30,000 Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship for her project "Computational and Experimental Optimization of Anthrax Toxin Lethal Factor (LF) Inhibitors."

Dr. Courtney Aldrich – Editor-in-Chief of new ACS journal

Courtney Aldrich, associate professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society's new, web-only journal ACS Infectious Diseases.  The journal will publish top-notch chemistry-focused infectious disease research. Manuscript submissions will begin September 2014, with the first issue slated for January 2015.

Arnie Groehler - ACS Best Poster Award

Graduate student Arnie Groehler was honored at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco with a Best Graduate Student Poster Award. His poster was ranked third in the Division of Chemical Toxicology. Arnie is a member of professor Natalia Tretyakova's lab.

Dr. Dave Ferguson - new grants

Department of Medicinal Chemistry professor Dave Ferguson was awarded a $30,000 Randy Shaver Cancer Research Fund, with co-PIs from Pharmaceutics and Urologic Surgery, for "An Advanced Vaccine for Treating Bladder Cancer."

He is also co-investigator on a $200,000 AHC Faculty Research Development grant for the project "Enhancing Cancer Immunotherapy by Combined Nonsense Mediated Decay Inhibition and Premature Stop Codon Suppression to Enable Tumor Neoantigen Expression."

Grad Students receive CBI Training Grants

Medicinal Chemistry graduate students Sara Coulup and Carter Eiden were awarded 2014 NIH Chemical-Biology Interface Training Grants. CBITG gives first-rate students the opportunity to develop both in their primary area of interest and in a complementary field by cross-discipline research interactions and experiences. Sara is a member of the Georg lab and Carter is in the Aldrich lab; they join Med Chem grads Kim Maize (Finzel lab) and Aniekan Okon (Wagner lab), both 2012 trainees.

Dr. Philip Portoghese develops new pain drug

Distinguished Professor Philip Portoghese describes his breakthrough drug for treating chronic pain in the Inquiry feature "New compound shows promise in treating chronic pain." Inquiry is a new blog exploring University of Minnesota research.

Dr. Elizabeth Amin – Women's Faculty Cabinet

Elizabeth Amin, associate professor, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the Women's Faculty Cabinet, which advises the Provost about the status of women faculty and goals for improvement of their academic careers and workplace.