latest burke group news
(08/21/08) Congratulations to Kaitly Gray who was named the 2008 Dr. Harold R. Snyder Fellow for the Department of Chemistry!
(08/19/08) Marty has been named one of the World's Top Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review! See also the UIUC press release.
(08/05/08) Congratulations to Eric Gillis on being named the 2008 UIUC Department of Chemistry Pines Graduate Fellow!
(07/03/08) Marty is highlighted as a "Scientist to Watch" in this month's issue of The Scientist!
(4/23/2008)Suk Joong's, Kaitlyn's, and James's paper on iterative Suzuki couplings for construction of polyenes was
highlighted in the May 2008 issue of SynForm!
(4/10/08) The Burke group was recently awarded the Beckman Young Investigator Award
for work on "Iterative Cross-Coupling: A Simple Strategy for Generalizing and Automating the Synthesis of Complex Small Molecules"! To read more about
iterative cross coupling, click here.
(3/13/08) Dan Palacios has been selected as recipient of the 2008 Robert M.
Scarborough Graduate Award! As part of the award ceremony, Dan will
present his research on amphotericin B at the fall national meeting
of the American Chemical Society during the Tuesday afternoon general
oral session of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry program.
(2/28/08) Congratulations to Linda Johnson and Dave Siebert for each receiving a
Campus Honors Program Summer Research Grant!
(2/20/08) Congratulations to Dan Palacios who was recently awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity!
(2/18/08) The Burke Group was recently awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, an award given for early career development of teacher-scholars.
(2/16/08) Congratulations to Tom Anderson who was recently awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship, covering
up to six years of training towards the dual degree!
(1/14/08) The potential for iterative cross coupling to make the power
of small molecule synthesis accessible to non-chemists is highlighted
by Patrick Walter in Chemistry and Industry. Read the
full story.
(12/21/07) Dan and Tom’s work on amphotericin B is highlighted
by Sergey Kozmin in Nature Chemical Biology.
(12/20/07) Iterative cross coupling (ICC) chemistry is going commercial!
Read the full story by Richard Van Noorden in Chemistry
World magazine.
(12/15/07) Congratulations to Suk Joong, Kaitlyn, and James for their
recent paper in J.A.C.S.!
(10/23/07) Dan and Tom publish in J.A.C.S.
their discovery that the classic model for amphotericin B action is
flawed!
(10/23/07) The first Burke Group NIH R01 grant is funded!
(5/9/07) Congratulations to Eric for landing the Burke group’s
first publication in J.A.C.S! Also, check out the
highlight, "Masks unveil new synthetic routes," by Stu Borman in Chem. and Eng. News.