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Hines Receives Baker Fund Award for ‘Biogenic Amine Modulation of Regulatory RNA Function’

Dr. Jennifer Hines

Dr. Jennifer Hines, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, received a Baker Fund Award of $12,000 for research on “Biogenic Amine Modulation of Regulatory RNA Function.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded $67,163 total to six faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative work during spring semester 2017. Endowed in 1961 […]

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April 17, 2017 at 3:59 pmResearch

Chemistry’s Wu Receives Baker Fund Award for Skin Cancer Project

Dr. Shiyong Wu

Dr. Shiyong Wu, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, received a John C. Baker Fund award of $12,000 for his work on “The Role of Carnosol in Preventing Skin Cancer Development.” The John C. Baker Fund awarded $67,163 total to six faculty proposals for research, scholarship and creative […]

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April 17, 2017 at 3:44 pmResearch

Richardson’s Team Probes Temperature at the Nanoscale

Thermal image of a lithographically fabricated gold nanodot under near-field thermal imaging.

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Nanoscale heat localization and thermosensing has a number of potential applications including cancer therapeutics and nanoelectronics. Chemistry and Biochemistry professor and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute member Hugh Richardson and Ph.D. student Susil Baral are working to develop this novel technology. In order to probe temperature at […]

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March 18, 2017 at 12:18 amResearch

Collaborative Research Receives NIH Grant, Strives to Prevent Disease

Dr. Jennifer Hines

By Megan Reed A chemical engineering professor in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology has received a nearly $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research that could potentially help mitigate serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dr. Douglas Goetz will […]

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February 15, 2017 at 8:34 amNews

NQPI | Malinski Recognized with Cardiology Award

Dr. Tadeusz  Malinski with Dr. Asher Kimchi and Dr. Jeffrey Borer

By Samantha Peko NQPI editorial intern Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member Dr. Tadeusz Malinski was recently honored by the International Academy of Cardiology at the 21st World Congress on Heart Disease in Boston. He received an award titled “The Albrecht Fleckenstein Memorial Award […]

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January 27, 2017 at 1:00 amNews Research

Harrington is Section Chair at SciX 2016, Named Editor of Investigative Forensic Science

Dr. Peter Harrington

Dr. Peter de B. Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, was the Chemometrics Section Chair for the SciX 2016 meeting, The Great Scientific Exchange, which is the second largest analytical conference in the United States. He organized six symposia for this meeting. Harrington also been appointed Editor-in-Chief […]

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January 10, 2017 at 8:04 amResearch

Masson Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

Masson Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was awarded a two-year grant for $110,000 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund in March 2016 to study the encapsulation of hydrocarbons into Cucurbiturils, a family of hollow pumpkin-shaped molecules that the Masson group has been investigating since 2008. […]

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November 30, 2016 at 10:56 amResearch