#  Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 

 



##  David Liu receives Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 

Liu was honored for pioneering an exciting new class of precise and effective gene-editing technologies.



 

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### Featured news 

 

NEW RESEARCH: Tracking precisely how learning, memories are formed

CCB team has unveiled a way to map the molecular underpinnings of how learning and memories are formed

New Cohen Lab paper, via [Nature Neuroscience](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6434).



 



    ![A combination of fluorescent labeling and cutting-edge microscopy allowed the researchers to illuminate synaptic behavior at unprecedented resolution.  Credit: Pojeong Park](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-05/Adam%20Cohen-Memories%20Image%20PUBLIC.jpg?itok=Qrkj5PDI) 

 

 

  

 



 

 

 

##  Latest News 

 



  [### CCB faculty members awarded Frontiers of Innovation for Societal Impact Fund.

 ](/news/2026/06/ccb-faculty-members-awarded-frontiers-innovation-societal-impact-fund) June 15, 2026 

 

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   [### CCB launches new K–12 outreach partnership with Watertown High School

 ](/news/2026/06/ccb-launches-new-k-12-outreach-partnership-watertown-high-school) June 11, 2026 

 

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   [### Sunny Shi honored with RSC Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence

 ](/news/2026/06/sunny-shi-honored-rsc-certificate-undergraduate-excellence) June 10, 2026 

 

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  [### Professor Peng Chen (Peking University)

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 Title: LIVE-CELL PROTEIN CHEMISTRY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE Abstract: Investigating the functional mechanisms of proteins within their "native environment"—living cells or animals—represents a challenging scientific conundrum as well as an interdisciplinary... 

 

 

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