Santos Laboratory

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.