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Fall 2024

Pontillas, Shienna Marie A

Gene therapy offers a promising approach for treatment of a diverse array of diseases at their genetic root causes. The cationic polyethyleneimine (PEI) has been extensively used for successful non-viral nucleic acid delivery in experimental systems, but its clinical utility has been hampered by...

Spring 2024

Martinez Perez, Octavio

The development of artificial photosynthetic systems is a promising strategy to meet future energy demands of our society and to reverse the impact of anthropogenic CO2 in the environment. Energy conversion devices such as photoelectrochemical cells are one key component in the transition to a...

Spring 2020

Rezghi Rami, Parisa

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), or more specifically pentacene derivatives, are promising candidates for solar energy conversion. Pentacenes can undergo π-stacking in solution and, consequently, can be poorly soluble. Furthermore, the pentacene moiety can react with oxygen, and it can...

Fall 2017

Wang, Lei

Glycans play essential roles in the life cycle of bacteria and often modulate interactions with their environment. Chemical synthesis provides a useful tool to access structurally well-defined bacterial glycans. These molecules can serve as probes for elucidating the biological function of these...

Spring 2020

Chu, Chun-Jui

“To understand something” is a perpetual theme in scientific research. In carbohydrate chemistry, we pursue to understand certain properties of sugar molecules. This is further described as the purpose of my research “understanding Mycobacterium marinum lipooligosaccharides’ (LOSs) immnuogenic...

Spring 2016

Kondapi, Venkata Pavan Kumar

Mammography is the most frequently used imaging method for the detection of breast cancer. Despite the key role of mammography in the breast cancer detection, false-negative diagnosis by mammograms ranges from 4 to 34%. Positron emission tomography (PET), a tracer based molecular imaging method...