latest burke group news
(10/15/09) The Burke Group wins the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry!
(09/15/09) Marty has been selected to receive the Eli Lilly Grantee Award!
(08/02/09) Congratulations to Kaitlyn Gray, Ian Dailey, and David Knapp for winning UIUC Graduate Fellowships!
(07/01/09) Eric Gillis has been awarded a prestigious Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowshp! Congratulations, Eric!
(06/25/09) Dave's and Eric's Communication is one of the "Most Read Articles" for the past month of JACS! Congratulations Dave and Eric!
(06/01/09) Marty wins the AstroZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award!
(05/30/09) Iterative cross coupling is highlighted by Prof. Frank Glorius in Angewandte Chemie!
(04/30/09) Dave and Eric report the discovery of a general solution for unstable boronic acids! Click here to read the recent communication in J.A.C.S.
Check out the highlight by Stu Borman in Chem. and Eng. News!
(04/10/09) Eric Woerly has been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship! Congratulations, Eric!
(04/07/09) Eric Gillis has been selected to receive a 2009 Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award! Congratulations, Eric!
(03/26/09) The Burke Group is selected to join the Howard Hughes Medical Institute!
(03/25/09) Marty wins a 2009 Amgen Young Investigator's Award!
(03/01/09) Sigma-Aldrich has launched the MIDA Boronates Chemfiles, with 50 new building blocks commercially-available worldwide!
(02/17/09) Marty wins a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship!
(11/09/08) Brice's and Eric's paper on vinyl MIDA boronate was published in a Tetrahedron Special Issue dedicated to Professor Justin Dubois' receipt of the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award! Congratulations Brice and Eric (and Justin)!
(11/3/08) Check out Simon Hadlington's article in Chemistry World, "Organic synthesis set for autopilot."
((10/10/08) The Burke Group's MIDA boronate chemistry is highlighted in Pharmaasia!
(10/07/08)The worldwide commercial launch of MIDA boronates is highlighted on CNN!
(10/07/08) Aldrich just announced the worldwide commercial launch of a large collection of MIDA boronate building blocks for
iterative cross-coupling! Click here to view the full MIDA boronate catalog.
(10/07/08)Eric's new paper on the synthesis of complex boronic acids from simple MIDA boronates was just published in
JACS!. Congratulations, Eric!
(08/21/08) Congratulations to Kaitlyn Gray who was named the 2008 Dr. Harold R. Snyder Fellow for the Department of Chemistry!
(08/19/08) Marty has been named one of the World's Top Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review!
See also the UIUC press release and the
story in LAS News.
(08/05/08) Congratulations to Eric Gillis on being named the 2008 UIUC Department of Chemistry Pines Graduate Fellow!
(07/03/08) Marty is highlighted as a "Scientist to Watch" in this month's issue of The Scientist!
(4/23/2008)Suk Joong's, Kaitlyn's, and James's paper on iterative Suzuki couplings for construction of polyenes was
highlighted in the May 2008 issue of SynForm!
(4/10/08) The Burke group was recently awarded the Beckman Young Investigator Award
for work on "Iterative Cross-Coupling: A Simple Strategy for Generalizing and Automating the Synthesis of Complex Small Molecules"! To read more about
iterative cross coupling, click here.
(3/13/08) Dan Palacios has been selected as recipient of the 2008 Robert M.
Scarborough Graduate Award! As part of the award ceremony, Dan will
present his research on amphotericin B at the fall national meeting
of the American Chemical Society during the Tuesday afternoon general
oral session of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry program.
(2/28/08) Congratulations to Linda Johnson and Dave Siebert for each receiving a
Campus Honors Program Summer Research Grant!
(2/20/08) Congratulations to Dan Palacios who was recently awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity!
(2/18/08) The Burke Group was recently awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, an award given for early career development of teacher-scholars.
(2/16/08) Congratulations to Tom Anderson who was recently awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowship, covering
up to six years of training towards the dual degree!
(1/14/08) The potential for iterative cross coupling to make the power
of small molecule synthesis accessible to non-chemists is highlighted
by Patrick Walter in Chemistry and Industry. Read the
full story.
(12/21/07) Dan and Tom’s work on amphotericin B is highlighted
by Sergey Kozmin in Nature Chemical Biology.
(12/20/07) Iterative cross coupling (ICC) chemistry is going commercial!
Read the full story by Richard Van Noorden in Chemistry
World magazine.
(12/15/07) Congratulations to Suk Joong, Kaitlyn, and James for their
recent paper in J.A.C.S.!
(10/23/07) Dan and Tom publish in J.A.C.S.
their discovery that the classic model for amphotericin B action is
flawed!
(10/23/07) The first Burke Group NIH R01 grant is funded!
(5/9/07) Congratulations to Eric for landing the Burke group’s
first publication in J.A.C.S! Also, check out the
highlight, "Masks unveil new synthetic routes," by Stu Borman in Chem. and Eng. News.