Congratulations to PhD Candidate Kelsey Holdaway for receiving an AFPE Pre-Doctoral Renewal Fellowship for 2024 - 2025!

Way to go! 👍

What a fantastic picture of two fantastic scientists!

Thanks for visiting, Dr. Liang. 👏

Join us tomorrow as Tian Lan presents the 2024 Abul-Hajj and Hanna Award Lecture:

Novel Rifamycin Antibiotics for Treating Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections

Details below 👇

Tian Lan ⌬

We are proud to announce that PhD Candidate Joe McPherson was selected as a CTSI T32 Predoctoral Program Scholar!

Read the whole story here:
pharmacy.umn.edu/news/joe-mcphe…

Interested in some light reading?

Check out this new publication from Prof. Natalia Tretyakova's laboratory in ACS Chemical Biology.

Nice work, Natalia Tretyakova!

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

We are thrilled to share that Tian Lan successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday! Congratulations, Dr. Lan!

Tian Lan ⌬

At this spring's Cheers to U! Gratitude Celebration for donors, attendees heard from P4 student Ayan Mohamed; University of Minnesota Medicinal Chemistry grad student Caitlin Lichtenfels; & Dan Harki about how philanthropy has helped their respective journeys. View more photos ▶️ bit.ly/3wr5w83

Parker Flanders will be defending his PhD thesis on Wednesday:

'Structure and Dynamics of Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibitors'

All of the details are below 👇

We hope to see you there!

On Tuesday, Tian Lan (Tian Lan ⌬) will defend his PhD thesis:

Rational Design of Next-Generation Rifamycins

Join us! Details are below 👇

Have you ever seen a freshly minted PhD? Now is your chance!

Join us on Monday as Nicholas Weirath defends his PhD thesis!

Details below 👇

Congratulations to postdoctoral scholar Kate Kostenkova, PhD for being selected as a member of the 2024 CAS Future Leaders cohort!

Read more about Dr. Kostenkova and the Future Leaders program here:

pharmacy.umn.edu/news/postdocto…

Tomorrow, we have the honor of hosting the esteemed Dr. Brian K. Kobilka from Stanford University to give the 2024 Portoghese Lecture:

'Challenges and New Approaches to Drug Discovery for G Protein Coupled Receptors'

📅: Tuesday, April 23rd
📍: Moos Tower 1-451
⏰: 3:35pm CST

MIKIW 2024 Minnesota faculty at faculty mixer.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Moyosore Orimoloye, who was awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota!

pharmacy.umn.edu/news/moyosore-…

Well done, Moyo! Keep up the great work! 👏

Tomorrow, we are hosting Weiping Tang from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to give a Distinguished Lecture:

'Development of Enabling Platforms for Degraders of Disease-associated Proteins'

📅: Tuesday, April 23rd
⏰: 3:35pm CST
📍: Moos Tower 1-451

Weiping Tang

We sincerely enjoyed hosting you, Nina Hartrampf!

Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us!

The Department of Medicinal Chemistry is proud to announce that Prof. Dan Harki has been named the Margaret Harvey Schering Land Grant Chair for Cancer Research by Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota!

Read more here:

pharmacy.umn.edu/news/dr-dan-ha…

Tomorrow, we are excited to host Nina Hartrampf from the University of Zurich to give a seminar talk:

“New tools for flow-based peptide and protein synthesis'

📅: Tuesday, April 16th
⏰: 3:35pm CST
📍: Moos Tower 1-451

Way to go, Jerrett!