

Welcome Jinjia!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Jinjia Xu to the Chan Lab! Brief bio: Jinjia Xu studied organic chemistry and functional polymer materials...


Effie successfully defended her thesis!
Effie successfully defended her PhD thesis! After leaving UIUC, Effie will be starting a position at Morrison and Foerster this fall....


Namuunzul is awarded Beckman Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Namuunzul has been named a 2020 Beckman Undergraduate Research Fellow. This program is supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman...


Amanda is awarded Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship!
Amanda has been named a 2020 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow. This program is supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman foundation and...


Hailey successfully defended her thesis!
Hailey successfully defender her PhD thesis! After leaving UIUC, Hailey will be heading to Caltech to start a postdoctoral research...


Sarah and Chris's paper is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie!
Advances in activity-based sensing probes for isoform-selective imaging of enzymatic activity The cell regulates complicated signaling...


Chelsea successfully defended her PhD!
Chelsea successfully defended her PhD thesis! After leaving UIUC, Chelsea plans to return to California to begin her next adventure in...


Chris and Irian's paper is published in Chemical Science!
Nitric oxide imaging in cancer enabled by steric relaxation of a photoacoustic probe platform Nitric oxide (NO) is a key signaling...


Lukas, Nick, and Gabby's paper is published in JACS!
A photoactivatable formaldehyde donor with fluorescence monitoring reveals threshold to arrest cell migration Controlled light-mediated...


Anuj and Chris's paper is published in Angewandte Chemie!
An activity-based sensing approach for the detection of cyclooxygenase-2 in live cells Cyclooxygenase‐2 (COX‐2) overexpression is...







































