Faculty Highlights

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  Pollock Articles

  In collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, chemistry professor Julie Pollock has published two articles on toll-like receptor signaling inhibition in inflammatory pathways; 1. Identification of Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors based on selective activation of hierarchically acting signaling proteins, in Science Signaling and 2. "Triaryl pyrazole Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors: Structure-activity relationships governing pan- and selective signaling inhibitors," in ChemMedChem.

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  Johnson Article

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson published "Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling," in Organometallics.

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  Nolin Named Distinguished Educator

  Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin was named a 2018 University of Richmond Distinguished Educator.

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  Pollock Article

  Chemistry professor Julie Pollock, along with colleague Carol Parish and several UR undergraduates, has published "Analysis of MEMO1 Binding Specificity for ErbB2 Using Fluorescence Polarization and Molecular Dynamics Simulations," in Biochemistry.

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  Parish Grant

  Chemistry professor Carol Parish received a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "RUI: Characterizing Pyrolysis and Combustion Pathways for Asphaltene Model Compounds."

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  Johnson Grant

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson has received a grant from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for his research project, “An Integrated Synthetic-Computational Approach to Developing a Quantitative Model for Proazaphosphatrane-Enabled Cross-Coupling.”

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  Nolin Article

  Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin, along with undergraduate co-authors, published "Friedel-Crafts alkylation of benzo[b]furan with activated cyclopropanes catalyzed by a calcium(II) complex" in the journal Tetrahedron Letters.

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  Parish Articles

  Chemistry professor Carol Parish, along with student collaborators and colleagues from other universities published three recent articles in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

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  Leopold Article

  Chemistry professors Mike Leopold along colleague Julie Pollock and several student researchers, published “Versatile sarcosine and creatinine biosensing schemes utilizing layer-by-layer construction of carbon nanotube-chitosan composite films,” in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.

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  Gupton Article

  Chemistry professor John Gupton, along with biology professors Omar Quintero and Krista Stenger and several student collaborators, published “Effects of a Novel Microtubule-depolymerizer on Pro-inflammatory Signaling in RAW264.7 Macrophages”, in Chemico-Biological Interactions.