 |
|
 
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
|
|
|
    |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Recent Happenings in the Department Keith Williams Receives American Chemical Society Graduate Student Fellowship
Melander & Lindsey Receive Funding from V Foundation North Carolina State University faculty members Christian Melander, Jon Lindsey (both from chemistry), John Cavanagh (biochemistry) and John Horowitz (College of Veterinary Medicine) have received a 4-year grant totaling $1,000,000 from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. This represents the first grant given to NC State from the V Foundation, and will support the training of graduate, undergraduate, and high school students in research areas related to cancer. This program is aimed at encouraging students to enter a career in cancer research and thus supply the nation with future generations of cancer researchers. The V Foundation is named in honor of the legendary Jim Valvano, who led the Wolfpack to the 1983 NCAA Basketball Championship. Posted April 25, 2008 Novak Wins Two Teaching Awards
Melander Group Awarded OBC Cover
Student Receives MJ Collins Award Doug Young, a graduate student in the Deiters lab, is the winner of the 2007 MJ Collins Award. The award is presented by CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, and recognizes outstanding research by an undergraduate, graduate, or post-doctoral student in the field of microwave chemistry. Doug and his adviser received the $10,000 cash prize at an award ceremony at the ACS National Meeting in Boston. The funds will be shared equally between the two recipients. Posted August 22, 2007 Proteomics Researcher in Chemistry Receives NIH Grant to Study Ovarian Cancer
|
Graduate Student Keith Williams working under the auspices of Professor David Muddiman has received a 2008-2009 graduate student fellowship from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. This fellowship is sponsored by Merck and Co., Inc. This fellowship provides 9 months of support for which Mr. Williams will work on the continued development and understanding of hydrophobic tagging of proteins to significantly enhance their detectability using mass spectrometry. Posted May 9, 2008
Dr. Bruce Novak has been named an Outstanding Teacher for 2007-2008 at N.C. State University and will become a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers. He was also one of four individuals chosen by the Senior Class Board of Trustees to win an Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award. Congratulations to Bruce on these two awards. Posted April 24, 2008
Eric Ballard and Justin Richards, members of the Melander Group, were recently awarded the cover of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry for their work based on the anti-biofilm properties of reverse amide 2-aminoimidazole oroidin analogues. These compounds potently inhibit and disperse bacterial biofilms, which have far reaching applications from healthcare to industrial settings. The article was also highlighted in the latest issue of the RSC review journal Chemical Biology.Posted April 3, 2008
Dr. Adam Hawkridge of the W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and several
members of the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research (CCMTR)
at NC State have received NIH funding for studying ovarian cancer in chickens
(Highlighted in NC State's Results Magazine). Insight into the chicken
proteome is expected to translate to the human form of ovarian cancer which is
already being studied in the Muddiman Group in collaboration with Dr. William
Cliby, M.D. at the Mayo Clinic. Posted August 7, 2007