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Designing a way to make oxygen injectable

Designing a way to make oxygen injectable

September 2, 2022

By Yahya Chaudhry, via Harvard Gazette

What if emergency medical personnel could treat a desperately ill patient in need of oxygen with a simple injection instead of having to rely on mechanical ventilation or rush to get them onto a heart-lung bypass machine?

A new approach to transporting gases using a class of materials called porous liquids represents a big step toward artificial oxygen carriers and...

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Xiaowei Zhuang delivers 2023 Dreyfus Prize Lecture

Xiaowei Zhuang delivers 2023 Dreyfus Prize Lecture

September 25, 2023

On Friday, September 21, Xiaowei Zhuang recieved the 2023 Dreyfus Prize and delievered her prize lecture in Pfizer Lecture Hall entitled "Vizualizing biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale: From molecular structures in neurons to cell atlas of the brain." 

On May 12 the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang was the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. 

Zhuang received this top...

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Joonho Lee

Joonho Lee named a Laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists

August 9, 2023

Joonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named a Laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut working in life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and chemistry.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists was established by the Blavatnik Family Foundation in 2007 and is administered by The New York Academy of Sciences. Laureates are awarded $30,000 each and two...

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CCB kicks off 2nd annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program

CCB kicks off 2nd annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program

June 12, 2023

On June 1st, CCB kicked off the second annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program with “Match Day” at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The afternoon highlighted the work of the six Brighton-Allston High School students enrolled in the program and provided an opportunity for CCB program staff, graduate and postdoc mentors, Ed portal staff and Brighton-Allston high school science teachers to meet and celebrate the work of this program. The high school students were handed a letter which contained their highly anticipated summer lab placement assignments. Once the matches were...

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CCB mourns the passing of Robert J. Madix

CCB mourns the passing of Robert J. Madix

June 2, 2023

CCB mourns the passing of Robert J. Madix, Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, who passed away on May 25, 2023 at the age of 84 in Palo Alto, CA from complications of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

An obituary prepared by his family is reprinted below:

 

Robert J. “Bob” Madix, a prominent chemical engineering and chemistry professor at Stanford and Harvard, and a National Academy of Engineering member, passed away at the age of 84 in Palo Alto, CA from...

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CCB hosts Spring 2023 BBQ

CCB hosts Spring 2023 BBQ

May 30, 2023

On Tuesday, May 23, CCB hosted its annual spring BBQ on North Lawn to celebrate the department's community and honor the research and work of its students, staff, and faculty over the past year.

See below for pictures, which will continue to be added and updated:

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A headshot of Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang Wins 2023 Dreyfus Prize

May 12, 2023

Today, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang is the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. 

Zhuang receives this top honor for her pivotal contributions to Imaging in the Chemical Sciences. She is recognized for pioneering work to develop groundbreaking super-resolution imaging and genome-scale imaging methods and utilizing those methods to gain important new insights about biological...

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Star-Friedman Challenge funds four CCB faculty members' projects

Star-Friedman Challenge funds four CCB faculty members' projects

May 12, 2023

As we shift towards a green economy, how can we track hydrogen leakages? What techniques can be developed to synthesize metastable quantum materials? How can we harness the interaction of light and matter to control chemical reactivity?  

The CCB winners of this year’s Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research are pursuing the answers to these questions. The CCB researchers selected for awards were Frank Keutsch, Richard Liu, Joonho Lee, and Jarad Mason. On Thursday, May 11, winners of the Star-Friedman Challenge gave short, accessible...

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A photo of Joanna Aizenberg holding a vial of blue liquid

Joanna Aizenberg wins Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Award

March 10, 2023

The Research Center for Functional Molecular Systems presents the Netherlands Awards for Supramolecular Chemistry 2023, which recognize outstanding scientists in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

The 2023 Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Award is awarded to Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University). She is a pioneer in the field of bio-inspired materials science and engineering — a branch of science that uses biological principles as guides in developing advanced, adaptive materials and devices. Her...

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Assistant Professor Jarad Mason

Jarad Mason receives Grid Accelerator Funding

February 23, 2023

Jarad Mason will work to de-risk promising ideas, with the aim of eventually launching startups, thanks to funding announced today from the University’s Grid Accelerator.

Virtually every refrigerator and air conditioner in use today relies on volatile fluorocarbon refrigerants, extremely potent greenhouse gases. Their release into the atmosphere is responsible for 3 percent of all global warming, a number that is rapidly increasing. A project led by ...

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Christopher T. Walsh (1944-2023)

Christopher T. Walsh (1944-2023)

January 11, 2023

CCB mourns the passing of Christopher T. Walsh, the Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, who died on January 10 at the age of 79.

Walsh, the internationally respected and unconventional enzymologist who revolutionized the study of antibiotics, was memorialized by HMS: "Christopher T. Walsh Dies Biochemist revealed molecular basis of antibiotic...

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Yoshito Kishi, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Yoshito Kishi (1937-2023)

January 13, 2023

CCB mourns the loss of Yoshito Kishi, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, who passed away on January 9 at the age of 85. 

The Harvard Gazette obituary is copied below:

 

He was a towering figure in organic chemistry renowned for his syntheses of complex natural products and impact on the development of halichondrin, paving the way for the creation of powerful cancer therapies. But in addition Yoshito Kishi, who died earlier this month at the age of 86, will be warmly remembered by colleagues and students as a devoted mentor who was wise...

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Xiaowei Zhuang awarded 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize

October 13, 2022

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science, has won the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for making seminal discoveries in cell and neurobiology with the ingenious imaging technologies she developed.  This international award honors outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology, as well as their clinical importance...

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