Congrats to Amber Dood for receiving the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from USF for the Spring 2020 semester!
This award represents recognition of her academic abilities and is intended to assist her during her graduate studies. This award provides an $8,000 stipend for Summer semester 2019 and up to 9 hours of graduate–level tuition, as well as fees and health insurance for the Summer semester.
Dr. Ma named a 2019 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Being in the top 1% of all chemists cited worldwide, having 175 publications and being cited more than 16,794 times.
Dr. Li and Dr. Woodcock are USF Faculty Members recgonized with the Outstanding Research Achievement Award
More information on their research.
Dr. Leahy appointed as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
A veteran of both academic research and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Leahy holds 25 patents. Three drugs that Dr. Leahy developed to treat cancer are on the market in the United States, and a hypertension drug he developed is on the market in Japan.
Congratulations to Dr. Ma and Dr. Space for DOE Grants
Drs. Shengqian Ma and Brian Space who have each received DOE grants from the Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Department of Energy (DOE) in response to a funding announce titled “Fiscal Year 2019 Commercial Trucks and Off‐road Applications FOA: Natural Gas, Hydrogen, Biopower, and Electrification Technologies”. Each award was funded at $800,000 and USF received two of the eight awards this round. The research projects funded are:
- Dr. Space: “Uniting Theory and Experiment to Deliver Flexible MOFs for Superior Methane (NG) Storage"
- Dr. Ma: “Metal-Organic Frameworks Containing Frustrated Lewis Pairs for H2 Storage at Ambient Temperature”
Dr. van der Vaart recieves NSF grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $152,735 to University of South Florida for support of project titled "Role of DNA sequence and deformability on lesion recognition and excision in the base excision repair pathway," under the direction of Dr. Arjan Van Der Vaart.
Dr. Woodcock's work on enzymatic degradation of plastics was listed as one of the top 100 (#88) most impactful papers of 2018!
Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase: Single-use plastic containers pose a significant global environmental problem. In this article, researchers describe a newly discovered enzyme that can digest the kinds of single-use plastics used in beverage bottles, clothing, and carpets. THE 2018 ALTMETRIC TOP 100
Dr. Cai and Dr. Ji have recently published a paper in PNAS
Dr. Jianfeng Cai, together with Dr. Haitao Ji at Moffitt Cancer Center, have recently published a paper in PNAS with the title of “Inhibition of β−Catenin/ B-Cell Lymphoma 9 Protein−Protein Interaction Using α-Helix-Mimicking Sulfono-γ-AApeptide Inhibitors”. In this article Dr. Cai and his collaborators reported the use of a new class of peptidomimetics-helical AApeptides to disrupt cancer-related β−Catenin/BCL9 protein-protein interactions.
Solomon Weldegirma receives outstanding faculty award as fulbright scholar
Congratulations to Dr. Weldegirma on being named a Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar! Because of this great achievement, this year he received an Outstanding Faculty Award.
Work from the Dr. Shi group featured on ChemComm cover
A recent publication entitled "Rational design and synthesis of yellow-light emitting triazole fluorophores with AIE and mechanochromic properties" from the Shi group was featured on the cover of this issue of Chem. Comm.
Drs. Dean Martin and Wayne Guida Receive Outstanding Faculty Award
Drs. Dean Martin and Wayne Guida received Outstanding Faculty Awards at a Dinner & Awards Ceremony held at Lifsey House on Tuesday, March 26. The Outstanding Faculty Award presented to Dr. Martin was due to his having received a Lifetime Achievement Award from AAAS and to Dr. Guida for having been elected as an AAAS Fellow. This was especially gratifying to Dr. Guida because he had taken General Chemistry at USF with Dr. Martin!
Congrats to Briana Aguila for receiving the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from USF!
This award represents recognition of her academic abilities and is intended to assist her during her graduate studies. This award provides an $8,000 stipend for Summer semester 2019 and up to 9 hours of graduate–level tuition, as well as fees and health insurance for the Summer semester.
USF STEM Workshop Chemistry Faculty Participants
Several of our outstanding faculty members were featured as workshop speakers at the USF STEM Workshop. Dr. Scott Lewis, Dr. Rong Zhang and Dr. Kenyon Daniel were all leaders at the workshop sessions today!
Dr. Xiaopeng Li wins CLP prize in Supramolecular Chemistry
Dr. Xiaopeng Li is receiving the 2019 Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry. Each year, there is only one recipient from a worldwide pool of candidates. This prize is in honor of the 1987 Nobel Prize winners who started the field of supramolecular chemistry, is highly coveted by researchers in the field, and is highly respected by all chemist.
Dr. James Leahy has been elected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
Dr. Daniel Cruz-Ramirez de Arellano was named the recipient of the 2019 Hispanic Leadership Class Award in Education by Tampa Hispanic Heritage, Inc.,
Demonstrating his commitment to education and community outreach
Congratulatins to Dr. Jianfeng Cai and Dr.Xingmin Sun (Professor of Molecular Medicine) for being awarded a grant from the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The $1.8+MM grant awarded project entitled “Novel Polymer Biomaterials Combating C. difficile Infection” that is slated to start now and run until August, 2024.