November 4, 2020

Benjamin Harrison The ongoing fight against cancer isn’t going to go away anytime soon, but the work from In-Kwon Kim, assistant professor of chemistry, and his team could drastically improve the field of cancer research. Kim recently received a 4-year grant ($792,000) from the American Cancer Society. With the help of this grant, Kim and his team will put the University of Cincinnati at the head of the next-stage cancer treatment. Before coming to UC, Kim was an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University’s School of Medicine. He decided to take the opportunity in precision cancer medicine in UC and join the chemistry department in 2016. Kim’s research group focuses primarily on the ADP-ribosylation cycle that regulates many cellular signaling pathways, including DNA repair and cell death. Currently, Kim and his team are working with human enzymes that remove different types of ADP-ribosylations. These enzymes play key roles in DNA repair and are often associated with breast cancer.

November 5, 2019

February 24, 2020

The University of Cincinnati's Chemistry Department recognizes the history of chemistry with the Oesper Collection of rare books, scientist portraits and historical lab equipment on the fifth floor of Rieveschl Hall.

February 24, 2020

April 22, 2020

University of Cincinnati chemistry professor Anna Gudmundsdottir was named a distinguished research professor in STEMM as part of the university's 2020 faculty awards.

April 6, 2020

With most science labs closed from COVID-19, the University of Cincinnati is donating unused boxes of lab gowns, masks and gloves to UC Health.

February 25, 2022

University of Cincinnati researchers led by Jiajie Diao and Yujie Sun have developed a new pH probe and imaging technique to provide researchers more information when studying diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's.

October 22, 2021

For University of Cincinnati students like Joanna Fetzer, a degree program offered through UC’s College of Arts and Sciences was a perfect fit. Fetzer has been interested in the study of skin care for a long time, and the program offers students like Fetzer the chance to cut time off the traditional six years it takes to earn a master’s degree, while studying s subject she’s passionate about.

August 4, 2021

University of Cincinnati’s Moriah Weese, a PhD candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences department of Chemistry, has won a highly-competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship.

March 10, 2022

University of Cincinnati chemistry researcher Ashley Ross has received a 2022 Sloan Fellowship to continue and expand her study of how the brain communicates to the immune system through neurotransmitters, particularly during inflammatory disease.    Among the most competitive awards in the U.S. and Canada, Sloan Fellowships are awarded annually to recognize creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments. Ross is only the fifth UC faculty member to receive the recognition in nearly 70 years.     Former recipients of the fellowship have included mathematician John Nash—one of the fathers of modern game theory and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics—and for five of the past six years, winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics have included former Sloan fellows.    “Today’s Sloan Research Fellows represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in a release announcing the winners. “As formidable young scholars, they are already shaping the research agenda in their respective fields—and their trailblazing won’t end here.”    Ross’s lab focuses on developing technologies to measure specific biomolecules, particularly neurotransmitters, which are chemical messengers that are used from the nervous system to communicate to nearby cells not only in the brain, but all throughout the body.