

Welcome Suri!
We are excited to announce that Suritra Bandyopadhyay has joined the Chan Lab! Brief bio: Suri is from West Bengal, India and graduated...


Rodrigo's paper is published in JACS!
Repurposing Cyanine Photoinstability To Develop Near-Infrared Light-Activatable Nanogels for In Vivo Cargo Delivery The favorable...


Melissa and Sarah's paper is published in ACIE!
Activity-based Photoacoustic Probes Reveal Elevated Intestinal MGL and FAAH Activity in a Murine Model of Obesity Obesity is a chronic...


Amanda was awarded the 2022 Pines Travel Award!
Amanda has been selected to receive the 2022 Pines Travel Award from the UIUC department of Chemistry. This award is intended for...


Jeff is a recipient of the 2022 SCS Teaching Award!
Jeff received the 2022 School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award! This award recognizes the entire scope of the recipient's educational...


Jeff was featured on the Super Human Radio Podcast
Jeff spoke about our recent work in ACS Central Science in which we employed BL-660 to show that high-fat diets promote inflammation via...


Jeff won the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Jeff was named as a 2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and...


Lily, Zhouran, and Austin have been awarded undergraduate research fellowships!
Undergraduates Lily Wenger, Zhuoran Zhong, and Austin Borri have all been awarded funding for conducting research this summer in our lab!...


Melissa successfully defended her thesis!
Melissa successfully defended her PhD thesis! After leaving UIUC, she will be heading to the NIH to work for Martin Schnermann....


Sarah and Melissa won the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Grant!
Sarah Gardner and Melissa Lucero were selected to receive the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Grant for their works in...







































