Department of Chemistry

Future cancer patients may have Dan Fu to thank for their individualized cancer treatment. 

An international team is studying malaria in India, where malaria parasites are more diverse than anywhere else. 

UW chemists are developing tools to improve our understanding of cancer cells — and our ability to treat cancer.

Alshakim Nelson, a chemist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, and his team, have developed a new type of bioreactor.

“We now understand the design principles to make polymers that can transport both ions and electrons more effectively.” - Professor David Ginger, UW Dept. of Chemistry.

The National Institutes of Health has renewed a major grant that funds a University of Washington-led research center to understand malaria in India.

David Ginger is lead author of a paper published in Nature Materials.

The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences announced that Dan Fu, Assistant Professor in Chemistry received a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator award.

Researchers from the University of Washington will use their Kavli grant to develop a tool for deciphering multi-kingdom communication molecules using engineer cellular traps.

University of Washington, Chemistry Ph.D. student Sarah Vorpahl will bring her passion for clean energy and policy to Washington, D.C. this September.

Most of the money committed by professor emeritus Larry Dalton and his wife, Nicole Boand, will go to establish the Dalton Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry.

Giles Eperon, research fellow in chemistry at the UW is featured in Forbes' "30 under 30" list.

A new method expands the range of materials for which ultrasensitive measurements can be made. David Masiello, professor of chemistry at the UW, is featured. 

Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Trento in Italy have engineered a protein that blocks cancer-promoting “messages” in human cells. Gabriele Varani, professor of chem

A big step in helping perovskites reach their potential as the basis for far cheaper and more efficient types of solar cells came this week from a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.