Accomplishments: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
A recent study from Chandra Bhattacharya's (Chemistry and Biochemistry) laboratory developed ionizable lipids with a tetrahydropyrimidine (THP) backbone for RNA delivery, utilizing a one-pot multicomponent reaction. This work was published in ACS Nano, titled "Tetrahydropyrimidine Ionizable Lipids for Efficient mRNA Delivery."
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Alexander Barzilov, Woosoon Yim (both Mechanical Engineering), Artem Gelis (Radiochemistry), and Ke-Xun Sun (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were awarded a five-year, $5,000,000 renewal grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration through the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) to continue research projects of…
A peer reviewed manuscript by authors professor Frederic Poineau (Radiochemistry) and Ph.D. candidate Harry Jang has been accepted for publication by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The article titled, "Revealing Uranium Tetrafluoride Microrods," represents the first time uranium tetrafluoride microrods were prepared by chemical…
Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) participated in a study led by the group at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Their research focused on the regulatory mechanisms of microRNA biogenesis in developing skeletal muscles. They identified that muscleblind-like splicing regulator (MBNL) proteins influence the processing and expression of microRNAs…
Art Gelis (Radiochemistry) and collaborators from University of Illinois, Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory recently published an article titled, "X-ray Induced Cycling of Rare-Earth Elements between Bulk and Interfacial Liquid," in the journal ACS Applied Material & Interfaces. The research performed at UNLV was supported by the Nuclear…
Łukasz J. Sznajder (Biochemistry) was awarded an NIH R16 grant ($0.75M) through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project titled, "Identifying tandem repeat expansion-mediated mechanisms of autism-risk genes."
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental conditions that affect communication and social…
Ph.D. candidate Harry Jang (Radiochemistry) recently published an article in ACS Omega titled, "Tailoring Triuranium Octoxide into Multidimensional Uranyl Fluoride Micromaterials." The article investigates uranium microstructured materials with the aim of elaborating on unexplored uranium fluoride micromaterials. The successful…
The article "Advancing the Nuclear Safety and Security Culture Post-Fukushima: Strengthening the Broader Humanitarian Impacts Agenda" was recently published in the British American Information Security Council's (BASIC) Emerging Voices Network (EVN). Radiochemistry Ph.D. candidate, Liuba Pauline Williams (Chemistry and Biochemistry) is a first…
Matt Sheridan and Ao Li (both Chemistry and Biochemistry) published their research paper, "Reversible Amine-to-Imine Chemistry at a Covalent Organic Framework for Sustainable Uranium Redox Separation," in the journal of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. This publication is a collaboration with Soochow and Fudan university focused on…
Jessica Grifaldo (Life Sciences), Erin Cassin (Life Sciences), Dengxun Lai (Life Sciences), Landon Netherton (Life Sciences), Efren Heredia (Chemistry), Ryan Doss (Life Sciences), and Monika Karney (Life Sciences) all won prizes for their oral or poster presentations at the Regional American Society for Microbiology Meeting that was held in the…
Doctoral student Paula Ramirez (Radiochemistry) has been selected for a fellowship under the Department of Energy's University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP), becoming the eighth student from UNLV to win the prestigious award. The highly competitive graduate fellowship program will fully fund Ramirez's research over a three-year period…
Łukasz Sznajder (Biochemistry) received a High Priority, Short-Term Project Award from the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation to study myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2). DM2 has garnered less attention than myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), lacking approved treatments or clinical trials. The uncertainty persists in applying DM1 therapeutic strategies to…