Chemistry News

Assistant Professor Woonghee Lee in the department of chemistry has just been awarded an NSF grant to further the state-of-the-art computational tool “POKY” for automation of data analysis for biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Dr. Lee released the POKY software suite in 2021, which has been distributed to more...

Associate Professor Jung-Jae Lee in the Department of Chemistry received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA/R15) grant from the NIH to support research in advance cancer detection and improve surgical precision using innovative glowing nanoprobes inspired by fireflies. The nanoprobes are specifically designed to target head and neck cancers, with...

Dr. Susan M. Schelble, a CU Denver Chemistry faculty member, was named one of the 37 new fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the Fall 2024 ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 19, 2024. Dr. Schelble was recognized as an impactful 31-year professor of organic chemistry and...

The Chemistry Department at CU Denver recently played a pivotal role in the success of the ACS (American Chemical Society) Kids Zone event that was held on Saturday, 8/17/24 at the Lola and Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center while the ACS National Meeting was being held at the Colorado Convention...

In fall 2023, Dr. Resendiz was granted a renewal of his R15 grant (2R15GM132816-02) to pursue projects on the impact of 8-oxoG on the structure of RNA.