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From the Chemistry Department

Que Research Reveals Origin of Fertilization-Induced Zinc Sparks

Dr. Emily Que published an article in Nature Chemistry titled "Quantitative mapping of zinc fluxes in the mammalian egg reveals the origin of fertilization-induced zinc sparks." This work comes from her post-doctoral research at Northwestern University in the laboratories of Drs. Thomas O’Halloran and Teresa Woodruff.   The amount of zinc pr...
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Graeme Henkelman Promoted

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Graeme Henkelman has been promoted to full professor. Dr. Henkelman also serves as associate chair for the Department.   Learn more about his research on the Henkelman Group page.

Guangbin Dong Receives American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award

Dr. Guangbin Dong is a recipient of a $784,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society. Grants from the American Cancer Society seek to support innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines to meet critically important needs in the control of cancer.
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Jonathan Sessler Awarded CPRIT Grant

On November 19, 2014 Professor Jonathan L. Sessler of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $1.46M Bridging the Gap: Early Translational Research Award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) for the "Pre-IND Development of OxaliTex."   He will lead a team consisting of Drs....

UT Austin Ranks Among World’s Best in Scientific Productivity

Source: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2014/11/12/nature-index-scientific-productivity/   AUSTIN, Texas — The Nature Index, a new ranking from the prestigious journal Nature, rates The University of Texas at Austin No. 26 among the world's most productive scientific research institutions.   UT Austin ranks No. 15 among all U.S. universiti...