Chemistry & Biochemistry News

  Image Dr. Fangyuan Tian, of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, is looking to nature in her research on new materials. One material could be used to create more safe and effective heart stents; another could filter greenhouse gases from landfills. A childhood steeped in natural experiences in rural China with her family has fueled a lifelong passion for nature and science. Dr. Tian's innovative research…

The 2020 CSUPERB annual symposium took place from Jan 16-18 in Santa Clara, California.  Our very own Prof. Vas Narayanaswami was selected as the winner of the very prestigious and competitive CSUPERB 2020 Faculty Research Award, and she gave an excellent talk which was much appreciated by all the attendees. It is a great honor to have this award come to Long Beach this year! Image CSULB Biochemistry…

With its origins from a casual hallway conversation between Professor Roger Acey and Kensaku Nakayama some years ago, these two began a collaboration focused on examining the development of inhibitors that targeted butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) at a time when researchers were largely focused on inhibiting acetylcholinesterase (AChE) to treat cognitive loss among patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Professors Acey and Nakayama soon realized that simple structural modifications to…

Five undergraduate researchers from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry received best poster presentation awards at the 2019 ABRCMS Meeting! The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Meeting took place November 13-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center.     Michael Lam of the Schwans Lab, junior Molecular Biology major and Fellow in the NIH Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program, presented his work Fmoc-…