Graduating Senior – Than Thar Aye

Another year has come and (almost) gone. I’ve been on sabbatical working in the lab myself this semester so the last week of classes has really snuck up on me. However, I am excited to once again share with you the remarkable graduating seniors of the class of...

A new paper!

If you follow my research accomplishments, you will see that I dabble in a variety of subjects and techniques. As a trained chemical biologist, I’d say I’m a jack of all trades (maybe a master of none?). When you talk to my students, they would probably...

Protease Inhibitors: Plan B for COVID-19 infection?

In December 2019, reports of a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China emerged. In 2020, we watched Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film “Contagion” become an eerie reality as countries entered national lockdowns and as biotech companies raced for a...

PACT and How to Foster Innovation in Modern Medicine

The concept of curing cancer has become this idiom we use to either highlight the intelligence of someone or to emphasize how important or unimportant something is. For example, think of a mother saying about her daughter “She’s so smart she’s going to cure cancer one...

Faces to Names – Summer 2021

As you see the student blog posts coming this summer, I wanted to introduce them here. When you click on the student page, three of their faces are obscured by masks because they were required when they joined the group. However, now we are vaccinated (yay science!)...