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Brian Liau wins 2027 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award

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...
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Emily Balskus wins 2026 Ono Award
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...
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Leading chemist Jeffrey Long to join CCB faculty
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...
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Profile: Finding ways to ‘drug the undruggable’ diseases
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...
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Adam Cohen receives Genomic Medicines Fund award
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...
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Xiaowei Zhuang awarded the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine
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...
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Profile: Environmental engineer inspired by community
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...
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Profile: First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious
It was DNA replication that first captured Isaac Witte’s scientific imagination as a high school student in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s this orchestration of so many different proteins and molecules that come together to do this core element of life,” he...
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Harvard undergraduates launch new ACS student chapter

Harvard undergraduates have officially launched the Harvard Undergraduate Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which seeks to bridge the gap between undergraduate chemists and the broader scientific community. The chapter was launched...
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