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Thirty-one finalists will compete for the world’s largest unrestricted prize for early career scientists Each year, three early career scholars earn $250,000 in the categories of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. Finalists...

Study identifies bacterial gene responsible for producing enzyme that consumes cardiac drug BY Peter Reuell Harvard Staff Writer Published in the Harvard Gazette Though digoxin has been widely prescribed for decades to treat a variety of heart conditions...

In 2017, our department made daring discoveries, pursued new frontiers, and excelled in teaching and research. Below, we countdown the year's ten most-read news and celebrate the varied successes of our faculty, students, researchers and alumni. 10. Alan...

On December 18, Chemistry & Engineering News (C&EN) published their 2017 Year in Chemistry, a synopsis of "the science that shone brightest in 2017." Emily Balskus, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, earned a place...

Emily Balskus, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has discovered a predator among our ususally symbiotic microbiome. With collaborator Federico Rey, an assistant professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin...

Two CCB faculty members, David Liu and Emily Balskus, have earned prestigious ACS National Awards. Vignettes of all award recipients will appear in Chemical & Engineering News in early 2018. David Liu At the March 20, 2018 ACS National Awards Ceremony...

Li Zha, a sixth-year graduate student in the Balskus Lab, is the lead author on a new paper titled "Colibactin assembly line enzymes use S-adenosylmethionine to build a cyclopropane ring," from Nature Chemical Biology. Read the Full Article About the...

On June 26, 2017, Nature Chemical Biology published "A new strategy for aromatic ring alkylation in cylindrocyclophane biosynthesis," a new paper from Emily Balskus, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. Read the full article...

Professor Emily Balskus has just been named a 2016 HHMI-Gates Faculty Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute! The HHMI Faculty Scholar program is a new 5-year initiative by the HHMI, in collaboration with the Simons Foundation and the Bill &...