5/4/13 Matt Nguyen won second prize during the undergraduate poster session. Congratulations!

3/5/13 Prof. Santos presents an invited lecture at the 14th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Chemistry Conference.

2/6/13 Wenyu and Jessica's paper about discovering a novel binding mode toward HIV-1 RNA is accepted in Chemical Communications. Congratulations!

1/5/13 We welcome two new graduate students in the lab. Cheryl Peck comes from Longwood College and Beth Childress is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.

1/1/13 Two publications from the Santos group are highlighted in Chemistry Portal. Joe's silylation protocol and Brandon's borylation protocol.

8/27/12 Dr. Mithun Raje secures a postdoctoral position with Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto at Johns Hopkins. Good luck!

8/21/12 Prof. Santos presents at the Young Investigator Symposium at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

8/21/12 Joe Calderone gives a talk about his beta silylation protocol at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

7/31/12 Congratulations to Dr. Jason Crumpton. He will start as an assistant professor of chemistry at Lynchburg College. Well done!

7/17/12 Joe's paper on aqueous silylation is highlighted in Synfacts (2012, 8, 781). Congrats Joe!

7/10/12 Mithun's paper describing selective sphingosine kinase 2 inhibitor SLR080811's role in lowering S1P level in mice is published in Biochemical Journal. Great Job!

7/7/12 The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery is official! Click here for more info.

7/1/12 Dr. Mithun Raje started as a postdoc in the Carlier group while Dr. Brandon Thorpe assumed principal scientist role at SphynKx Therapeutics. Good luck to both of you!

6/1/12 Best of luck to Dr. David Bryson who joins Prof. David Liu as a postdoc fellow at Harvard University.

5/30/12 We welcome James Gumkowski as a Fralin Summer Undergrad Research Fellow. He comes to us from Muhlenberg College.

5/20/12 Analyn Carreon, a visiting scholar from the Philippines, has arrived!

4/30/12 Congratulations to Julie Ta for winning 1st place in the undergraduate research poster session.

4/23/12 The reagent developed in our lab, PDIPA diboron, is now in the "electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eROS)". The article is contributed by Brandon Thorpe.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Webster L. Santos

Department of Chemistry

VA Tech

306 Hahn Hall North

Blacksburg, VA 24061

santosw@vt.edu

phone: (540)-231-5742

fax: (540)-231-3255