News

Congratulations to Charlotte Boott and Andy Tran (from the MacLachlan lab) whose recent paper was published in Angewandte Chemie and identified by the reviewers as a very important paper (VIP). In this work, Charlotte and Andy developed an elastomeric material with cellulose nanocrystals that becomes coloured and iridescent only when it is stretched.  The elastomers could be made so that they display a pattern when they are stretched. These materials could open new avenues in sensor...

The Perrin lab's work on one-step, metal-free peptide stapling has been featured on the inside cover of Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!

Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201909719

Profs. Berlinguette and Hein are happy to announce the first publication coming out of Project Ada, a three year, $8 million program in partnership with Prof. Aspuru-Guzik at the University of Toronto. They have successfully demonstrated the ability of their platform to optimize a thin film coating critical to solar cell fabrication, accomplished through autonomous cycles of fabrication, analysis, and AI-driven iteration.

Read the paper here:...

Katherine Ryan, an Associate Professor here at the Department of Chemistry, has been selected for the 2018 Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research. Katherine was recognized for demonstrating excellence in pure or applied scientific research.

Congratulations Katherine!

Read More

These awards are given for demonstrated research excellence in all areas of chemistry for work carried out at UBC.

Award Winners: Yiling Dai, Carlos Diaz Lopez, Maxim Epifanov, Erin Evoy, Linglan Fu, Jason Hedges, Kevin Kovalchik, Lev Lewis, Thomas Malig, Alla Pryyma, Kyle Robinson, Christopher Tonge, Andy Tran, and Michael Tran

Dr. David Perrin has been awarded the 2019 Bernard Belleau Award from the CSC.  This award is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of medicinal chemistry through research involving biochemical or organic chemical mechanisms.  Dr. Perrin will receive the award at this year's CSC conference in Quebec City. Congratulations Dr. Perrin!

Dr. Laurel Schafer has been awarded a 2018 UBC Killam Research Fellowship. This award enables faculty to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave.

Dr. Schafer's award will be recognized at the awards reception held by the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation on April 10th, 2019 at the the Jack Pool Hall of the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre. Congratulations Dr. Schafer!

UBC Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow Mel Higgins has received the 2019 Founders Award from the American Chemical Society Biological Chemistry Division. This award was established in memory of William P. Jencks’ contributions to mechanistic enzymology and is given to an outstanding PhD student or postdoctoral fellow in biological chemistry.

Mel presented her award lecture “Characterization of a heme-dependent N-N bond forming enzyme” at the Winter Enzymes Conference in New Orleans in...

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources has just announced an $8-million investment to develop a first-of-its-kind robotic platform called ADA that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the development process for new energy efficient materials.  UBC Chemistry Professor's Berlinguette and Hein, in conjuction with Prof. Aspuru-Guzik (U of T), are developing the platform called the Autonomous Discovery Accelerator for Materials Innovation.

ADA—essentially an AI-driven materials...