Five NU elite undergraduate scholars presented on their research on Tuesday, April 14th at the annual Matz Co-op Spring Research Symposium.

Shores Salter '15, a senior chemistry major, won the inau­gural Shores C. Salter Award for Out­standing Cit­i­zen­ship at the annual Stu­dent Life Awards cer­e­mony on April 16th. Salter saved the life of Boston Marathon bombing victim Roseann Sdoia who lost a leg in the attack.

Dr. Jim Vath, co-founder and current head of research and development for Zafgen, Inc. presented the third lecture in the Barnett Institute/Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology's entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship seminar on March 18th.

The 16th Annual Francine and Michael Saferstein Memorial Lectures in Forensic Science was held on March 25th and 26th, and feautured Dr. Jeff Salyards.

In early December, a group of government officials and scientists from the Chinese FDA came to Northeastern University for an academic exchange. This marks the second time in the past 2 years that Chinese FDA officials have visited Northeastern University. During the opening ceremony on December 10th Graham Jones, chair of the Department of Chemistry […]

Haven Baker is in charge of the potato development at Simplot, a company that recently received U.S.D.A. approval to plant its modified potatoes.

Professor Matthias Mann, Director in the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalytical Chemistry.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) student chapter at Northeastern University has been selected to receive a Green Chemistry Award for its activities conducted during the 2013-14 academic year.

Congratulations to Dr. Brian S. Fulton on the publication of his new book, Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction: Medicinal Chemistry Strategies! The book will be available through Amazon and other book retailers on September 15, 2014.

Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus presents, "Motion: The Hallmark of Life. From Marsupials to Molecules."

College and high school students learning together? The thought of this intellectual cross-pollination is intriguing and the results are even more interesting. According to Kristian Teichert, a second-year biochemistry student here at Northeastern, this might be the future of education.

Congratulations to several Chemistry & Chemical Biology students for their awards.

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which partners Tufts University Medical Center with Northeastern, Brandeis and a number of clinical affiliates, has been named a recipient of a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Research collaboration between the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Empiriko has led to development of a device, which has been heralded as an artificial liver.  The Biomimiks technology is designed to allow researchers to screen potential pharmaceuticals for toxic metabolites, bypassing the need for animal studies.  Work at Northeastern involves department chair Graham […]