Teaching Lab Protocols Now Freely Shared
Boston University Chemistry has launched a new Digital Common site for organic chemistry teaching lab protocols. According to Prof. John Snyder, “developing a freely accessible, dynamic data base of sophomore organic lab experiments was driven by the reality that we were creating most of our sophomore course labs rather than relying on a lab textbook. […]
Chemistry Faculty Receive BU Ignition Awards to Develop Promising Cancer & Tuberculosis Drugs
The Ignition Award Program provides funds to evolve BU research to the stage where it can be licensed, form the basis of a new company, or be used to create a new, non-profit social enterprise. In June 2010, two Chemistry faculty, John Porco and John Snyder, received these highly competitive awards for their respective commercially […]
John Snyder Receives the Templeton Prize
Snyder Recognized for Excellence in Student Advising For the second year in a row, a member of the Chemistry faculty has received the Templeton Prize for Excellence in Student Advising, the top undergraduate advising award given by the College of Arts and Sciences. The 2009 recipient is Prof. John Snyder. Despite his busy schedule which […]
NIGMS Renews Funding for the CMLD-BU
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is continuing its support of the CMLD-BU as one of five Centers of Excellence addressing the problem of how to develop small molecule libraries and techniques for making them that meet all the needs of pharmaceutical and biomedical scientists. The CMLD-BU was originally established in 2002. The […]
CMLD-BU Scientists Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant in Pilot-Scale Libraries for High-Throughput Screening Program
Co-investigators of the Boston University Chemical Methodology and Library Development Center (CMLD-BU) (http://cmld.bu.edu) have been awarded a three-year grant for their joint proposal “Generation of Stereochemically and Structurally Complex Chemical Libraries.” The goal of the work by Professors Porco, and co-Principal Investigators Panek, Schaus, and Snyder, is to generate a number of stereochemically and structurally […]