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Technology Profile: Chemist’s fix for a stubborn biomanufacturing problem

August 14, 2026

In the race to build a biomanufacturing economy, one of the most stubborn obstacles is surprisingly mundane: getting enough gas into a tank of liquid. From pharmaceuticals to alternative proteins, many technologies depend on microbes that need to breathe...

Brian Liau wins 2027 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award

August 05, 2026

Brian Liau, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been awarded the 2027 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. The winners will each receive an award certificate, a monetary award of US $5,000, and an...

Brian Liau stands in his lab, smiling broadly

Emily Balskus wins 2026 Ono Award

July 15, 2026

Emily Balskus, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has recieved the 2026 Ono Pharma Foundation Breakthrough Science Initiative Award. Her project is entitled "Developing chemical probes to...

Leading chemist Jeffrey Long to join CCB faculty

June 30, 2026

Jeffrey R. Long, Ph.D. ’95, a leading chemist who studies porous materials for energy and sustainability, will join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the inaugural Thomas C. Foley Professor of Energy and the Environment in the Department of Chemistry...

Profile: Finding ways to ‘drug the undruggable’ diseases

June 30, 2026

Chemical biologist Greg Verdine was driving from his North Shore home to his office in Cambridge when he had to pull over to the side of the road. Verdine was listening to the podcast “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat.” The guest was former U.S. Sen...

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

June 15, 2026

Curbing the spread of malaria, catching breast cancer before it becomes deadly, and creating an immersive archive on the Giza pyramids are the goals of just a few of the 20 faculty research projects recently awarded grants through the Frontiers of...

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

June 11, 2026

On Thursday, June 4, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology’s Advanced Undergraduate Teaching team welcomed 12 AP-level students from Watertown High School for the inaugural visit of the new CCB Advanced Teaching Labs K–12 Outreach Program. The...

Watertown High School students visiting CCB, posing in front of the CCB building.

Sunny Shi honored with RSC Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence

June 10, 2026

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated undergraduate researcher Sunny Shi on June 8, 2026, during the department's Summer Undergraduate Research Community Opening Social, where she was presented with the Royal Society of...

Sunny Shi sitting in her Harvard graduation regalia.

Adam Cohen receives Genomic Medicines Fund award

June 08, 2026

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) is pleased to announce that awards have been made to five projects from the Harvard University Genomic Medicines Fund. The fund is intended to support of research involving genome editing that is useful...

Xiaowei Zhuang awarded the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine

June 05, 2026

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s highest...

Profile: Environmental engineer inspired by community

May 29, 2026

Lizbeth Ibarra grew up next to an oil refinery, and every day she saw its impact on her community of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her family and friends suffered from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. School days were sometimes cancelled...

Profile: First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious