November 13, 2023: Leah Joseph presented her poster titled "Expression and Purification of GATA-3 Protein" at the Honors College Research Symposium at UIC.
October 10, 2023: UIC today article on our New Innovator Award: https://pharmacy.uic.edu/news-stories/villegas-nih-award/
August 10, 2023: Thitiwar Larndate presented his poster titled “Design, Synthesis, and Screening of Peptides for the Treatment of Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma (PTCL)” at the SURF/Riback Mini-symposium.
July 27, 2023: Our lab is awarded a New Innovator Award from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. This grant will support our work on developing antiviral peptides against HIV for the next five years.
May 16, 2023: Thitiwar Larndate joins the lab as a David J. Riback Summer Research Fellow.
April 19, 2023: Nick Johnson presented his poster titled “Expression and Purification of Capsid Protein from Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1” at the Chicago Area Undergraduate Symposium.