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The Welch Foundation is one of the United States' largest private funding sources for basic chemical research.
Principal Investigator Ming Yi and researchers at @RiceUniversity perform transport, neutron scattering, scanning transmission electron microscopy and muon spin rotation experiments to unveil the microscopic mechanism of the annealing process and its impact on magneto-transport,…
Registration is now open for the 2025 Welch Conference: NEW HORIZONS IN DRUG DISCOVERY. The conference will take place October 27–28, 2025 at The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston and virtually via live-stream. Please visit the following link to register: welch1.org/conference/reg…
Principal Investigator Peter G. Vekilov (@VekilovLab) along with other @UHouston researchers test whether and how H-DHA inhibits hematin crystallization, the main constituent of the heme detoxification pathway of malaria parasites. jbc.org/article/S0021-…
Principal Investigator David C. Powers along with other @TAMU researchers highlight the importance of conducting kinetic experiments to assess the origin of apparent catalytic activity with MOFs and the challenge of harnessing reactive oxidants with microporous catalyst…
Principal Investigator Benjamin R. Sabari (@bsabari) along with other researchers at @UTSWMedCenter uncovers a genetic mutation that fuses two genes drives several different cancer types by forming networks of protein interactions that alter gene expression in cells.…
Principal Investigator Paul A. Lindahl along with other @TAMU researchers investigate low-mass Zn pool in E. coli by isolating cytoplasm from cells grown in media supplemented with increasing concentrations of Zn(acetate)2. jbc.org/article/S0021-…
Principal Investigator Junichiro Kono (@JunichiroKono) along with other @RiceUniversity researchers use optical cavities, structures made of mirrors facing one another, to confine vacuum fluctuations, harnessing their effects to engineer new forms of matter.…
Principal Investigator Xiaochen Bai along with other researchers at @UTSWMedCenter have determined the structure of a protein called midnolin that’s crucial to the survival of malignant cells in some leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myelomas - using a cutting-edge imaging…
Principal Investigator and 2024 Hackerman Award recipient Haotian Wang (@wanght1990) along with other @RiceUniversity researchers have discovered a simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert carbon dioxide into useful fuels and…
Principal Investigator Xiaochun Li along with other researchers at @UTSWMedCenter elucidate the activation mechanism of TRPML channels and paves the way for the development of selective TRPML modulators. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Principal Investigator Rafael Verduzco (@RafRice) along with other @RiceUniversity researchers have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams without any…
Principal Investigator Joshua Mendell (@Mendell_lab) and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter highlight the functional versatility of snoRNA sequences and expand the known mechanisms through which noncoding RNAs orchestrate ribosome biogenesis. cell.com/molecular-cell…
The Welch Foundation had such a blast last week hosting 18 researchers from across the state for the 2025 WelchX Collaboration Retreat! This year’s theme was “Chemical Research for Grand Challenges”. The retreat’s activities were designed to spur creative, innovative and…
The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!
Principal Investigator Neal Alto (@AltoLab_Neal) and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter show that the enterobacterium Shigella flexneri actively antagonizes LPS ubiquitylation through IpaH1.4, a secreted effector protein with ubiquitin E3 ligase activity. nature.com/articles/s4159…
The Welch Foundation is investing more than $27 million in chemical research and education across Texas including $25.5 million in Research Grants supporting 85 grants at 16 institutions, $975,000 in Equipment Grants across 13 institutions, and $600,000 in Postdoctoral…
Principal Investigators Masaya Fujita of @UHouston and Oleg A. Igoshin of @RiceUniversity used biophysical modeling to reveal the transcriptional regulatory mechanism of Spo0A, the master regulator in starving Bacillus subtil. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40298394/
Principal Investigator Yuh Min Chook (@yuhminchook) and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter used Alphafold2 predictions and biochemical reconstitutions to show that one copy of Setdb1 and two copies of Atf7IP form a hetero-trimeric complex in vitro and in cells. jbc.org/article/S0021-…
Endowed Chair Zhiqiang An and researchers at @UTHealthHouston have engineered a monoclonal antibody that can protect mice from a lethal dose of influenza A. The new molecule combines the specificity of a mature flu fighter with the broad binding capacity of a more general immune…
Principal Investigator Naomi J. Halas and researchers at @RiceUniversity and @bcmhouston have developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil, even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a lab. news.rice.edu/news/2025/mach…