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Faculty & Staff | November 11, 2022

Morgan State Postdoctoral Researcher Awarded American Association of University Women Fellowship

$30K Fellowship to Support Morgan State Chemist in Anti-Cancer Research

June 10, 2021

Drs. McCarthy & Wachira Awarded $550k for Biomaterials Research

Dr. Pumtiwitt McCarthy (Principal Investigator), Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. James Wachira (Co-Principal Investigator), Associate Professor of Biology, have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out their project, "Excellence in Research: Elucidating Factors that Affect Substrate Promiscuity of Bacterial Capsule Polymerases for Synthesis of Novel Polysaccharides."

Students | May 10, 2021

Morgan Scholar Earns First Place in Target’s Inaugural ‘HBCU Future Leaders in Retail Challenge’

Biology Major Madison Pleas Submits Top Case Study, Earning Nearly $4,000 in Prizes and a Job Offer

May 04, 2021

Dr. Samokhvalov Awarded $560k for Advanced Research Equipment

Dr. Pumtiwitt McCarthy (Principal Investigator), Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. James Wachira (Co-Principal Investigator), Associate Professor of Biology, have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out their project, "Excellence in Research: Elucidating Factors that Affect Substrate Promiscuity of Bacterial Capsule Polymerases for Synthesis of Novel Polysaccharides."

April 28, 2021

Dr. Abebe Awarded $381k for Cell Imaging Research

Dr. Fasil Abebe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has won a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out his project, “Excellence in Research: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes as Potential Tools for Bioimaging.”

May 11, 2020

Dr. Samokhvalov Awarded $326K to Study Delayed Release of Anti-cancer Drug

Dr. Alexander Samokhvalov, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study complexes which slowly release the widely used anti-cancer drug gemcitabine. His research project, "Encapsulation and delayed release of gemcitabine by aluminum metal-organic frameworks," is expected to total $326,128 over the period of May 1, 2020 through April 30, 2023.