Congrats to Trevor Dean, a graduate student in our lab at UIC!

NIH APPLICANTS:

Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification.

Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE.

You have been warned.

The 2025 Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers meeting, jointly organized by @euromedchem.bsky.social and @acsmedi.bsky.social, is just a few days away, and many of the exhibitors' displays have already arrived! See you on Monday! #MedChemFrontiers25 www.medchemfrontiers.org

Check out this new joint Special Issue between ACS Infectious Diseases, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters on Fungal Pathogens.

Headshot of Trevor Dean

Congratulations to Trevor Dean, a Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate student in the Moore Lab at UIC, who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship from the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry!

A New Antibiotic from Nature + Live Science Chat this Friday! Scientists have discovered a new broad-spectrum "lasso peptide" antibiotic.

I'll be joining Cassandra Quave this afternoon for a live chat
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Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.

The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.

This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Yes, our Midwest AViDD Center just received the termination notice

Justification is that 'covid is over' but we worked against viruses with pandemic potential too, including Ebola, Marburg, Zika, Dengue

Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University

www.science.org/content/arti...