The Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University is made up of internationally recognized faculty involved in all areas of contemporary chemical science, including many interdisciplinary areas that combine chemistry with biology, medicine, physics, and materials.

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Townsend Research Lab

Pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacteriodes abscessus has outpaced tuberculosis in the U.S., with cure rates below 50 percent. This sparked collaboration between the Townsend Research Lab and two School of Medicine research groups to design and synthesize a promising new antibiotic for treatment.

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New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

In a collaboration with chemists at Georgetown University and University of Oregon, the The Tovar Group engineered radial conjugation pathways into pi-conjugated systems that are traditionally made up of linear pathways.

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The Greenberg Group

The Greenberg Group discovered that DNA methylation produces deleterious DNA-protein cross-links in the chromatin of cellular DNA, which could influence how biologists think about the cytotoxicity of drugs such as temozolomide (used to treat glioblastoma) and lead to improvements in how cells are damaged by DNA alkylation.

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The Thoi Group

The Thoi Group‘s new work reveals novel post-synthetic modification strategy leads to improved electrochemical performance in Li-S batteries.

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The Bowen Group

The Bowen Group realized highly selective C-H bond activation in methane by single platinum atomic anions.

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The Fried Group

The Fried Group discovered that roughly one half of the proteins in E. coli are non-refoldable, meaning that once they are denatured, they cannot navigate back to their native states. This calls into question Anfinsen’s hypothesis that thermodynamics is the sole determinant of proteins’ native structures.

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Hernandez Research Lab

The Hernandez Group has joined a cross-disciplinary team in response to NSF’s “Harvesting the Data Revolution” Initiative to propose and develop autonomous computing materials capable of keeping pace with Moore’s law as conventional silicon is outpaced. This perspective is now available on ACS Nano.

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The Goldberg Group

The Goldberg Group shows the first structural evidence of a nonheme FeIII(OH)(Cl) complex, relevant to the intermediate of nonheme halogenases. They also investigated the hydroxylation versus halogenation reactivity of this complex with tertiary carbon radicals.

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News & Announcements

June 2, 2021

Prof. Thoi receives DOE Early Career Award!

The Thoi lab is recently funded by a Department of Energy Early Career Award to study the heterogeneous interface in electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction. Congratulations, Dr. Thoi! https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-awards-100-million-early-career-scientists-mission-critical-research Congrats again, Dr. […]

May 26, 2021

Thomas Kempa highlighted in Arts & Sciences Magazine

An assistant professor of chemistry, Kempa works in what is known to insiders as the world of “flatland” materials—two-dimensional layers that are only a few atoms thick, but that can […]

May 21, 2021

Congratulations to Vinayak Khodade, Sahil Aggarwal, and Blaze Pharoah of the Toscano group on their publication in Chemical Science!

The manuscript describes preparation of various hydropersulfide (RSSH) donors that show potent effects against oxidative stress as well as increases in intracellular sulfane sulfur levels. Modification of protein cysteine residues […]

May 21, 2021

Congratulations to Thoi lab undergraduates, Hannah, Pilar, and Kush!

Thoi lab researchers earn undergraduate research awards from the Dean’s Office. Hannah Pugh and Pilar Beccar-Varela receive the Dean’s Office 2021 Aspire Award, while Kush Kataria receive the Woodrow Wilson […]

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Townsend Research Lab

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

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Hernandez Research Lab

The Goldberg Group

News & Announcements

Prof. Thoi receives DOE Early Career Award!

Thomas Kempa highlighted in Arts & Sciences Magazine

Congratulations to Vinayak Khodade, Sahil Aggarwal, and Blaze Pharoah of the Toscano group on their publication in Chemical Science!

Congratulations to Thoi lab undergraduates, Hannah, Pilar, and Kush!

Faculty Research Highlights Explore the department’s most current findings

Townsend Research Lab

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

The Greenberg Group

The Thoi Group

The Bowen Group

The Fried Group

Hernandez Research Lab

The Goldberg Group

Faculty Research Highlights
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