Franz Research Group
Recent News
- January 2012: Qiang Su joins the lab as a first-year graduate student!
- Check out Jeff's cover art on the Feb 2012 issue of J. Inorg. Biochem.
- Group Alums Jeff and Kat can't escape the Franz Lab, even when touring in Italy! (October, 2011)
- Marina's prochelator paper in J. Inorg. Biochem. has been evaluated by Faculty of 1000
- April 7, 2011: Congratulations Dr. Hyman!!!
- January, 2011: Welcome new group members Mark Sleeper, David Besse and Qin Wang
- July 23, 2010: Congratulations Dr. Crider!
- July 14, 2010: Congratulations Dr. Dickens!
- June 24, 2010: Congratulations Dr. Rubino!
- June, 2010: Congratulations to Drew for receiving a Burroughs Wellcome Fellowhip from the Department, and to Marian for receiving a fellowship from the Pharmacology Sciences Training Program!
- April, 2010: Check out Jeff's paper on Mets motifs and Cu in J. Biol. Inorg. Chem.
- Robert and Stephanie present their posters at the Dept of Chemistry Independent Study Poster Session. Nice work!
- NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! Oh . . . and Kathy was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Good job, group!
- March 15 and April 2, 2010: Congratulations Drs. Kat Haas and Kate Ciesienski, the latest PhD's from the group!!!
- March 2010: Congratulations Drew on his JACS communication showing that a prochelating peptide can be activated by beta-secretase to sequester copper from amyloid beta! The paper was also picked up as a Highlight in the March 29, 2010 issue of C&EN News and an article on hometown hero Drew appeared in The Reading Eagle!
- March, 2010: Congratulations to Lissette for completing her Master's Thesis!
- January, 2010: Check out the article in GoDuke Weekly on our own chemist/wrestler Robert Holbrook. Go Robert!
- December, 2009: Welcome new group members Marian Helsel and Andrew Franks!!
- Nov, 2009. Congratulations to Marina for receiving the Departmental Recognition Award (and free parking pass!) for November!!!
- Oct/Nov, 2009. Lynne celebrates publication of her Copper FlamB paper in Dalton Trans, Sarah & Robert celebrate publication of their Platinum-Mets paper in Metallomics, Marina toasts acceptance of her QBP manuscript in ChemBioChem, and Lissette celebrates her Perspective article's acceptance in Dalton Trans.
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June, 2009. Kat celebrates acceptance of our Chemical Reviews paper: Application of Metal Coordination Chemistry To Explore and Manipulate Cell Biology
- May, 2009. Kathy is awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! The award recognizes outstanding scholarship and commitment to education.
- March, 2009. Congratulations to Lissette for passing her prelim exam!
- January, 2009. Drew Folk joins the lab as a first year grad student.
- November, 2008. Congratulations JEFF, SARAH, MARINA, and LYNNE for passing their 3rd-Year Propositional Exams!
- August, 2008. Copper has been caged! Check out our recent JACS communication, spearheaded by Kate, with contributions from Kat, Marina, and Yohannes.
- August, 2008. Congratulations to Kate Ciesienski for receiving a Zeilik Fellowship from the Department! Way to go Kate.
- March 20, 2008. Congratulations to Lou for completing her PhD. Way to go Dr. Charkoudian!!!
- Feb. 15, 2008. Dr. Franz received a Sloan Research Fellowship!
- Jan, 2008. Lissette Perez joins the lab as a first-year grad student.
- September, 2007. Lou and David Published a "Hot Article" in Dalton Trans as part of a special edition on Metals in Medicine and Healthcare!
Check out the press release on our recent results:
Separating the Brain's
'Bad' from 'Good' Iron.
2007 Congratulations to the following awardees:
Louise Charkoudian for the Paul Magnus Gross Fellowship.
Sarah Crider and Kathryn Haas for the Pelham Wilder Teaching Award.
Daniel Yang for a Beckman Scholarship.
Katie Ciesienski and Kathryn Haas have their propositional exams!