Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer... Read more about Microbial manufacturing

Researchers elucidate a mechanism of nitrogen-nitrogen bond formation shared by two pharmaceutically promising compounds... Read more about Unusual biosynthetic pathway offers a key to future natural product discovery

Thirty-one finalists will compete for the world’s largest unrestricted prize for early career scientists... Read more about Emily Balskus is 2018 Blavatnik National Award finalist

Study identifies bacterial gene responsible for producing enzyme that consumes cardiac drug... Read more about Enzyme interference

In 2017, our department made daring discoveries, pursued new frontiers, and excelled in teaching and research.... Read more about Our most-read news from 2017

On December 18, Chemistry & Engineering News (C&EN) published their 2017 Year in Chemistry, a synopsis of "the science that shone brightest in 2017." Emily Balskus, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, earned a place among their stars.... Read more about Emily Balskus earns a place in C&EN's Research of the Year

Emily Balskus, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has discovered a predator among our ususally symbiotic microbiome.... Read more about Emily Balskus investigates a microbial menace

Two CCB faculty members, David Liu and Emily Balskus, have earned prestigious ACS National Awards.... Read more about ACS Honors David Liu and Emily Balskus

Li Zha, a sixth-year graduate student in the Balskus Lab, is the lead author on a new paper titled "Colibactin assembly line enzymes use S-adenosylmethionine to build a cyclopropane ring," from Nature Chemical Biology.... Read more about New Use for SAM from Li Zha and the Balskus Group

On June 26, 2017, Nature Chemical Biology published "A new strategy for aromatic ring alkylation in cylindrocyclophane biosynthesis," a new paper from Emily Balskus, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology.... Read more about New Publication from Professor Emily Balskus, the "Microbiome Code Breaker"

Professor Emily Balskus has just been named a 2016 HHMI-Gates Faculty Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute!... Read more about New HHMI-Gates Faculty Scholar Emily Balskus