How can we keep transplanted organs oxygenated longer? How can we create chiral molecules with precise control?

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 this year's awards were...

Professor Xiaowei Zhaung, along with 14 other innovation pioneers whose inventions range from cancer treatments to theatrical technologies and special effects, will be honored in the 2024 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductees. 

In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Hall of Fame will honor these Inductees on May 9 at one of the innovation industry’s most highly anticipated events — “The Greatest Celebration of American Innovation^®.”

“Every year, I am impressed and inspired by the accomplishments...

Six Harvard College students or recent graduates were among the 51 students nationwide named to the Marshall Class of 2024.

Two students, Simar Bajaj and Sarosh Nagar, are CCB students. The recipients will head to the U.K. next year for two years of graduate studies at the college or university of their choice. The students say the scholarship will help them pursue their ultimate goal of making the world a better, safer, and more equitable place.

Nagar, a chemistry and economics concentrator from Chicago, is interested in improving the development of scientific...

On Monday, October 2, Jin-Quan Yu, Bristol Myers Squibb Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Scripps Research, recieved the Max Tishler Prize in Pfizer Lecture Hall. Accepting the award, Yu delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture, entitled "20-Year Dancing with Palladium and C–H bonds: From Curiosity to Industrialization."

Lecture Abstract: 
"Part I: Reactivity and Enantioselectivity; Part II: Site-selectivity and Sustainability

The widespread presence of C–H bonds at various sites of synthetic substrates renders C–H activation the most...