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Department News 2012
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Peter Geissinger, Associate Professor
Sensing in a flash
Combines the fiberoptic, water-monitoring technology developed by chemist Peter Geissinger with a local business that helps industries treat their wastewater, and you have a sought-after solution that delivers at the speed of light. More information ...
Department News 2011
Xiaohua Peng, Assistant Professor
October 17, 2011
New Anticancer Agents Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment ... more information.
Graham Moran, Associate Professor
September 5, 2011
New Use for FDA Approved Drug-Treatment of Microbial Infections with NTBC ... more information.
Peter Geissinger, Associate Professor
Summer 2011
UWM Research Foundation, Bradley Catalyst Grant Program - Awards Announced.
Prototype Optical Sensors for Water Quality
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Guilherme Indig, Associate Professor
August 4, 2011
Low Cost Method for Preparation of Novel Organic-Inorganic Pigments
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Jörg Woehl, Assistant Professor
August 4, 2011
Point Spread Function Software for Confocal Microscopy
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Dennis Bennett, Professor
Summer 2011
UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Awards
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Carolyn Aita, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor
March 12, 2011
UWM announces latest Catalyst research grants
Dr. Aita's research focuses nano-laminate coatings development that can be easily scaled up for manufacturing ... more information.
Alan Schwabacher, Associate Professor
February 2, 2011
Color outside the lines at UWM’s Science Bag
In “Hidden Colors Revealed” UWM chemist Alan Schwabacher will show various ways that color can be present, but not visible – or uncovered ... more information.
James Cook, UWM Distinguished Professor
January 25, 2011
Local startup secures option on UWM research
Wauwatosa-based Addiction Therapeutix has obtained exclusive patent option rights for future commercialization of a family compounds for the treatment of neuropathic pain developed by researchers at UWM ... more information.
Grants Awarded
September 2011
Dietz, Mark L.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Brookhaven National Laboratory, $116,440
Project: An Integrated Basic Research Program for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems based on Ionic Liquids
August 2011
Cook, James M.; Helmstetter, Fred J.
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Psychology
Harvard Medical School, $142,751
Project: Novel GABA-A Modulators As Cognitive Enhancers
Indig, Guilherme L.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin - Madison, $30,619
Project: Tri-Modal Polymeric Micelles for "See and Treat" Applications in Surgical oncology
Silvaggi, Nicholas R.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
National Institutes of Health, $73,850
Project: Dual-Function Biocatalysts for the Synthesis of Engineered Anti-MRSA Antibiotics
Tysoe, Wilfred T.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Carnegie Mellon University, $131,665
Project: Catalysis Science: Molecular-Level Design of Chiral Heterogeneous Catalysts
Tysoe, Wilfred T.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
National Science Foundation, $135,000
Project: Surface Reaction Pathways on Model Gold Palladium Alloy Catalysts
February 2011
Indig, Guilherme L.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Flint Group Pigments, $19,558
Project: Joint Pigment Research
January 2011
Frick, David
Chemistry and Biochemistry
National Institutes of Health, $332,325
Project: Antiviral potential of helicase inhibitors
Petering, David
NIEHS Core Center
National Institutes of Health, $103,197
Project: Childrens Environmental Health Sciences Core Center