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Yury Polikanov, Nora Vázquez-Laslop and Alexander Mankin

UIC scientists explore powerful new antibiotic

UIC scientists, including our very own Yury Polikanov of Biological Sciences, explore a dual-action antibiotic that could combat bacterial resistance🔬. “Polikanov’s group, which specializes in structural biology, studied how these drugs interact with…

Misty Huacuja-LaPointe

Celebrating Excellence: Rising Star Award Recipient

Congratulations to LAS Director of Pre-Health Advising, Misty Huacuja-LaPointe, who has been awarded the Rising Star Award by the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions for her exceptional leadership in pre-health…

Marcus Michelen

Marcus Michelen receives NSF CAREER award for 2024-29

Congratulations to Marcus Michelen of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science on receiving the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his groundbreaking work in “Analytic and High-dimensional Methods in…