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Stephen Fried’s Research Could Help Fight SARS, MERS, and Zika

Stephen Fried’s Research Could Help Fight SARS, MERS, and Zika

Stephen Fried, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, is helping lead a study of a virus’s RNA called the slippery sequence that may hold a key to destroying not only SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […]

Thoi Lab Receives Space@Hopkins Seed Funding

Thoi Lab Receives Space@Hopkins Seed Funding

The Thoi Lab was recently awarded seed funding from Space@Hopkins to use metal-organic frameworks for low-temperature batteries for space applications.  To read more about the grant and to see the […]

Thoi Lab Receives Grant from the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund!

Thoi Lab Receives Grant from the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund!

The Thoi lab is a grant recipient of the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund from the Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures.  This funding will support their work […]

Prof. Fried Receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Prof. Fried Receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Dr. Stephen Fried became an assistant professor in the department of chemistry in summer 2018. Since then he has collaborated with numerous professors, departments and institutions as he and his […]

Theoretical Chemist Douglas Poland dies at 80

Theoretical Chemist Douglas Poland dies at 80

Douglas Poland, 80, retired Professor of Chemistry, passed away on September 5, 2020. Poland earned a B. A. degree from Cornell University in 1961 and a Ph. D. degree from […]

Prof. Cheng Receives Grant Support From The National Science Foundation

Prof. Cheng Receives Grant Support From The National Science Foundation

The Cheng Group recently received a grant from the Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics program of the National Science Foundation. The three-year award entitled “Accurate Electronic and Vibrational Structure […]

Former Townsend Lab Group Member Makes FORTUNE’s Annual 40 under 40 List

Former Townsend Lab Group Member Makes FORTUNE’s Annual 40 under 40 List

FORTUNE is a world renowned organization dedicated to curating articles based on successful individuals, businesses, industries and much more. Each year their elite team compose a list of emerging leaders […]

Prof. McQueen and Team Selected to Run National Quantum Information Science Research Center

Prof. McQueen and Team Selected to Run National Quantum Information Science Research Center

There are five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers. The Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen the Brookhaven National Laboratory as one of the laboratories to run one of […]

Former Lectka Lab Group Member Develops FDA Approved Cancer Drug

Former Lectka Lab Group Member Develops FDA Approved Cancer Drug

Dana Ferraris was the first ever group member to graduate from the Johns Hopkins University chemistry department Ph.D. program in Dr. Thomas Lectka lab group back in 1999. Dr. Ferraris […]

The Greenberg Group Publishes a Hot Paper on DNA Damage in Angewandte Chemie

The Greenberg Group Publishes a Hot Paper on DNA Damage in Angewandte Chemie

Congratulations to Liwei Zheng of the Greenberg group for his recent publication in Angewandte Chemie which was selected as a Hot Paper by the editors. In collaboration with the Su […]