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News in 2012
                                        (The picture is from The Daily Gamecock, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012)


04/19/2012
Congratulations to Jui-ting Hsieh for receiving "Hiram and Lawanda Allen Scholarship for Excellence in Chemistry" Award  on University Awards Day, April 19, 2012.

Congratulations to Brandi Nicole Bailey for receiving "Hypercube Scholar Award" on University Awards Day, April 19, 2012.

Congratulations to Quyen Luong Nguyen for receiving "Betty R. Fundenberg Undergraduate Biomedical Research Award" on University Awards Day, April 19, 2012.

04/02/2012
Congratulations to Nikki for receiving a travel award from the Graduate School to fund her trip!

03/27/2012
Congratulations to Quyen! She has been awarded a Student Poster Presentation Award in Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry from 243rd ACS meeting.












02/04/2012
Welcome Ben and Taylor to join our group!

02/04/2012
Congratulations to Sharmi for receiving the Spring 2012 Travel Award (Cancer Research)!

01/04/2012
Welcome Dr. Su to join our group!

12/03/2012
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! He was elected as a Fellow of the Association by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council.

11/30/2012
Congratulations to Lilly! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

11/13/2012
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! The article "Tobacco Mosaic Virus as a New Carrier for Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigens" is highlighted as one of the most read from Bioconjugate Chemistry between July and September 2012.
 
09/17/2012

Congratulations to Dr. Hans-Conrad zur Loye, PI, Dr. Qian Wang, Co-PI, Dr. Linda Shimizu, Co-PI and Dr. Thomas Bryson, Co-PI! They received a grant from the US Department of Education for a three-year total amount of $399,793.00 for their project entitled, "Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Program-Chemistry".

09/11/2012

Congratulations to Amie for receiving Cancer Research Travel Award!

07/25/2012
Congratulations to Sharmi! During the month of June, her article of " Breast tumour initiating cell fate is regulated by microenvironmental cues from an extracellular matrix" was amongst the top ten accessed articles from the online version of Integrative Biology.

07/25/2012

Congratulations to Sharmistha Saha! During the month of June, her article of " Breast tumour initiating cell fate is regulated by microenvironmental cues from an extracellular matrix" was amongst the top ten accessed articles from the online version of Integrative Biology.

07/10/2012

Congratulations TO Dr. Wang! He received a grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $50,000.00 for his project entitled,"I-Corps: Fluorogenic Dyes and Fluorogenic Linkers as Enabling Tools for Bioconjugation Technology."

05/14/2012

Congratulations to Sharmi! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

05/04/2012

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for receiving the ASPIRE Grant Award!
Dr. Qian Wan
g - grant funded in the amount of $15,121 (ASPIRE I)
Dr. Franklin Berger- PI, Dr. Michael Wyatt, Dr. Lukasz Lebioda and Dr. Qian Wang-CoPI's-grant funded in the amount of $100,000 (ASPIRE II)

04/24/2012
Congratulations to Quyen! She has successfully defended her senior thesis.

04/23/2012

Congratulations to Nikki for receiving Cancer Research Travel Award!

04/23/2012

Brandi, Quyen and Sevan presented their research at Undergraduate Research's Discovery Da
y.
 
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News in 2013
11/1/2013
Xingjie Zan, Sheng Feng, Dr. Elizabeth Balizan, Dr. Yuan Lin and Dr. Qian Wang had their paper, “General and facile method to align one dimensional nanoparticles in macro scale and control over myoblast orientation and differentiation” has been highlighted by ACS(American Chemical Society) Nano as the cover article for the October 2013 issue.

9/13/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year total amount of $390,000.00 for his project entitled, “Development of Functional Polymer-Protein Core-Shell Nanoparticles.”

05/01/2013
Congratulations to Qian Wang, his student, Sheng Feng, his postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Xinrui Duan, and collaborators: Dr. Pang-Kuo Lo (Biology), Shou Liu (Biology), Xinfeng Liu (Mathematics), and Hexin Chen (Biology). Their paper “Expansion of breast cancer stem cells with fibrous scaffolds", was chosen as the front cover of Integrative Biology, 2013, 5, 768-777

04/19/2013
Congratulations to Jillian Browning Claire receiving Betty R. Fundenberg Undergraduate Biomedical Research Award on University Awards Day, April 18, 2013!

04/18/2013
Congratulations to Christine Jui-ting Hsieh receiving Hiram and Lawanda Allen Award for Excellence in Chemistry on University Awards Day, April 18, 2013!

04/05/2013

Congratulations to Xinrui! His paper, "Incorporation of azide sugar analogue decreases tumorigenic potential of breast cancer cells by reducing cancer stem cell population", was chosen as the cover of Science China Chemistry.

02/08/2013
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! He has been appointed a Carolina Distinguished Professor for a five-year term from 2013-2018.
News in 2014
11/12/2014
Congratulations to Hong! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

11/7/2014
Congratulations to Dan! He has successfully defended his dissertation.

8/11/2014
Congratulations to Dr. Wang! He and his co-researchers received a grant from NSF for a total amount of $584,229 for their project entitled, "MRI: Acquisition of a Small-Angle X-ray-Scattering instrument."

4/25/2014

Congratulations to Amie! She has successfully defended her dissertation!!

4/24/2014
Congratulations to Sheng Feng! for winning the Poster Award for Graduate at EPSCoR/IDeA Annual Conference.

4/10/2014
Dr. Wang was honored for 10 years of service at the 2014 State Service Award Ceremony hosted by Division of Human Resources.

1/03/2014
It was announced on January 3, 2014, that Dr. Qian Wang received a grant from The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York/NIH, for a three-year total amount of $227,436.00 for his project entitled, “Subcutaneously Implantable Affinity Microsensor for Stable and Accurate Monitoring of Glucose.”
News in 2015
11/03/2015
Welcome Jiang as a new visiting postdoc to Wang group! Hope you can keep building your successful career with Wang group!!

10/2015
We welcome you Libo, Xinzhou, and Amanda as our new graduate students!! Hope you would work and study with the motive and passion!!

9/2015
Dr.Wang has received a grant for his project entitled "Optimization of the Sample Prepartion Methods for Proteomics Analysis and the Application of beta-Glucuronidases for fast Hydralysis" funded by IMCS, LLC. for a total amount of $258,000.

6/19/2015
Congratulations to Dr. Wang!! He recieved a grant from NSF for a total amount of $167,013.00 for his project entitled "Collaborative Research: A Contact Lense-Based Glucose Nanosensor Using Affinity Polymer-Functionalized Graphene."

4/06/2015
Congratulations to Sheng!! He has successfully defended his dissertation.
News in 2016
12/27/2016
Congratulations to Yok!! Her article "Influence of Cross-Linkers on the  Chondrogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels" has been published on Applied Materials & Interfaces.

08/15/2016
Congratulations to Enoch! He has successfully defended his dissertation.

08/09/2015
Congratulations to Jiang! Her article titled "Novel H2S Releasing Nano-fibrous Coating for In Vivo Dermal Wound Regeneration." has been accepted to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

04/20/2016
Congratulations to Yok, Gift and Enoch!! They recently have several articles to be published. Proud of your hard work!! You can see the details on Publication in 2016.

04/06/2016
Congratulations to Gift!! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

04/0212016
Congratulations to Yok!! Her
article titled "Promotion of In Vitro Chondrogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using in Situ Hyaluronic Hydrogel Functionalized with Rod-Like Viral Nnoparticles" has been published on Biomacromolecules.

04/01/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Wang!! He has received the South Carolina Section ACS Outstanding Chemist Award.

04/01/2016
Congratulations to Gift!! She has successfully defended her dissertation.

02/29/2016
Congratulations to Yok!! An article she participated in writing titled "Thiol-Ene Crosslinking Polyamidoamine Dendrimer-Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel System for Biomedical Applications" has been published on Journal of Biomaterial Science, Polymer Edition.

02/19/2016
Congratulations to Enoch!! An article he participated in writing titled "A graphene-based affinity nanosensor for detection of low-charge and low-molecular-weight molecules" has been published on Nanoscale.

02/01/2016
Congratulations to Matsepo!! She has successfully defended her dissertation!!

01/21/2016
Congratulations to Nikki and Sheng!! An article they particapated in writing titled "Effect of Roughness on in Situ Biomineralized CaP-Collagen Coating on the Osteogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells" has been published on Langmuir.

01/11/2016

Congratulations to Just!! She has successfully defended her M.S. thesis

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News in 2017
12/21/2017
Congratulations!! One of our article titled "One-step assembly of multi-layered structures with orthogonally oriented stripe-like patterns on the surface of a capillary tube" has been highlighted as a hot paper by PCCP.

10/03/2017
Congratulations to Yok!! She has successfully defended her dissertation!!

06/10/2017

Congratulations to Yok!! An article she participated in writing titled "A Dielectric Affinity Glucose Microsensor Using Hydrogel-Functionalized Coplanar Electrodes"
has been published on Microfluids and Nanofluids.
News in 2018
10/01/2018
Congratulation!! The article that our previous visiting student Sake wrote has been highlighted as a covoer page of Intergrative Biology, 2018, 10. Click the link below.
"Chemical modification of enveloped viruses for biomedical application."
News in 2019
04/01/2019
Dr. Wang has become a winner of the Southern Chemist Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Memphis Section. He has been given the award as an outstanding researcher who has brought recognition to the South. Many Congrats!! Check the link below!
https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/Southern-Chemist-Award-Qian-Wang/97/i13
            News in  2020- the first half of 2021
It has been unprecedented weirdest year due to Covid-19. Everything got slow down and we all had to stay a little apart but we've found a way to keep moving forward. Sorry for having missed lots of news going on during covid years but late congratulation to Libo and Todd who graduated during 2021-2021!!
         News in 2021
Check our articles highlighted as cover pages this year!!
"Harnessing P450 Enzyme for Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology", ChemBioChem 2021, 22, 1-13
“Surface topography and free energy regulate osteogenesis of stem cells: effects of shape-controlled gold nanoparticles”, Biomaterials Translational 2021, 2, 165-173.
“Using small molecules to enhance P450 OleTSA enzyme activity in situ”, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 8940-8945.
         News in 2022
Many contrats to Tao Li who is a professor at Nothern Illiois University and most
importantly, our former group member!! Yay!!
- He was selected by American Chemical Society, Divison of Energy and Fuels as a
recipient of the 2022 Emerging researcher Award.
We are so proud of what you've accomplished, Tao!!
10/18/2022
         News in 2023
What a great news for Nan! She receives a grants - One-Year Grants for Doctoral Candidates from German Academic Exchange Servic to do research at Universität Heidelberg, which is one of top 3 universities in Germany. We are so proud of you Nan!!
05/20/2022
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