Chemistry & Biochemistry News

The 2020 CSUPERB annual symposium took place from Jan 16-18 in Santa Clara, California.  Our very own Prof. Vas Narayanaswami was selected as the winner of the very prestigious and competitive CSUPERB 2020 Faculty Research Award, and she gave an excellent talk which was much appreciated by all the attendees. It is a great honor to have this award come to Long Beach this year! Image CSULB Biochemistry…

With its origins from a casual hallway conversation between Professor Roger Acey and Kensaku Nakayama some years ago, these two began a collaboration focused on examining the development of inhibitors that targeted butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) at a time when researchers were largely focused on inhibiting acetylcholinesterase (AChE) to treat cognitive loss among patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Professors Acey and Nakayama soon realized that simple structural modifications to…

Five undergraduate researchers from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry received best poster presentation awards at the 2019 ABRCMS Meeting! The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Meeting took place November 13-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center.     Michael Lam of the Schwans Lab, junior Molecular Biology major and Fellow in the NIH Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program, presented his work Fmoc-…

The 33rd Annual CSU Student Research Competition was held at CSU FUllerton on April 26-27. All 23 CSU campuses were represented by over 200 graduate and undergraduate student groups. Only students who were endorsed by their campus may enter this competition, usually by a school-wide preliminary research competition. However, only 44 student groups could win 1st and 2nd place awards in each of the 22 divisions. CSULB won 4 awards in total: 3 first place and 1 second place. A talk …