A huge congratulations to Dr. Kefan Yang who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday, 01/20/2023!
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Publications
Complete journal publication list from 1997 to present.
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Dr. Kefan Yang – Successful Thesis Defense
Adriana Lozoya – Chu Family Foundation award
Congratulations to our postdoc Adriana for receiving one of the Chu Family Foundation awards at the IRT 3NA 2022! Thanks to this fellowship she will be visiting the Andi Marx Lab in the south of Germany next week.
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Daniel Schuder – Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship awardee
Congratulations to our grad student Daniel on being awarded the GAANN fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education!
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Esau Medina – Vertex Scholarship awardee
Congratulations to our PhD student, Esau Medina, on being awarded the Vertex Scholarship earlier this year! Your hard work and dedication does not go unnoticed.
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Kefan Yang – UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s (BAI) Graduate Innovation Fellowship
Congratulations to our grad student, Kefan Yang, who got awarded the UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s (BAI) Graduate Innovation Fellowship!
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Eric Yik – Henry Wood Elliot Award
Congratulations to our most senior grad student Eric Yik for getting the Henry Wood Elliot award. You earned it!
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John Chaput Receives 2022-2023 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award For Research
July 27, 2022 Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor, Dr. John Chaput, received the 2022-2023 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research from the UC Irvine Academic Senate and will be honored at a reception later this year. The Distinguished Faculty Awards recognize faculty who have brought significant distinction to UCI through their research, teaching, mentorship or service to the University and…
Read MoreChaput lab latest research on COVID-19 test was featured in UCI news
UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy Recent work from PhD candidate Kefan Yang was featured in this UCI News article. This work presents a COVID-19 test that detects and identifies specific SARS-CoV-2 variants with 100% accuracy. Recently published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a paper on the research describes the…
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ALS Highlights the Mechanism of DNA Synthesis Publication
The Advanced Light Source at the Berkeley Lab highlights the Chaput lab’s recent publication on the mechanism of DNA synthesis in a Science Brief. The specific Nature Communication publication discusses newly discovered intermediates that provide greater context to replication by a DNA polymerase; the exact order and transition between intermediates was solved by time-resolved X-ray…
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John Chaput Receives The 2021 Athalie Clarke Achievement Award
John Chaput was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Athalie Clarke Achievement Award from the UC Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award recognizes researchers whose work has the potential to make lasting impacts on human health. Read more about this achievement here, and watch Dr. Chaput accept his award below!
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