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Jesse Gordon (Nocera Lab) is selected for the 2025 CAS Future Leaders program

March 20, 2025

On Thursday, March 20, CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) specializing in scientific knowledge management, announced that Jesse Gordon, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Nocera Lab, has been selected as a participant in the 2025 CAS Future...

Five CCB community members are invited to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

March 20, 2025

Five CCB community members, Meghan Sullivan (Nocera Lab), Andre Sanchez (Jacobsen Lab), Garrick Lim (Aizenberg Lab), Friedrich Stricker (Aizenberg Lab), and Jacopo Movilli (Aizenberg Lab) were invited to attend the prestigious 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate...

Profile: A Cheaper Way to Make Drugs?

March 12, 2025

T he cost of prescription drugs is high—particularly in the US where consumers pay nearly three times more than those in 33 other nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. One factor in prices is fluorination, which plays a...

Paula Hammond delivers inaugural Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture

March 11, 2025

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT...

Richard Liu receives Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award in Chemistry

March 11, 2025

On Monday, February 17, Richard Liu received the Bayer Foundation’s Early Excellence in Science Award at the Science Awards Celebration . The Bayer Foundation honors every year early career scientists for their outstanding research with the Early...

Jarad Mason wins PECASE Award

March 11, 2025

Professor Jarad Mason is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government upon outstanding early-career scientists and engineers who show...

New research: Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer

March 11, 2025

Two new studies represent a big step toward developing innovative molecular therapies capable of disrupting the uncontrollable growth of cancers at their roots. In a pair of papers recently published in Nature, a team of scientists led by Harvard’s...

New research: Potential new weapon in battle against superbugs

March 11, 2025

Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a growing, deadly global health menace. A team led by Andrew Myers, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, reports in...

New research: Mapping connections in a neuronal network

March 11, 2025

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large number of neurons. The research, published in...

New research: Researchers make leap in quantum computing

January 24, 2025

Molecules haven’t been used in quantum computing, even though they have the potential to make the ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster. Their rich internal structures were seen as too complicated, too delicate, too unpredictable to manage...

New research: Ins and outs of quinone carbon capture

January 14, 2025

Carbon capture, or the isolation and removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during industrial processes like cement mixing or steel production, is widely regarded as a key component of fighting climate change. Existing carbon capture technologies...

New research: New way to target and correct disease-related proteins

January 14, 2025

Over the past two decades, large genetic studies have linked tens of thousands of DNA variants to thousands of human traits and diseases. Yet, correcting the effects of those variants to treat disease has been hampered in part by the lack of precise...