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January 27th, 2024: Our postdoc Cormac Kelderman has accepted a new position working in radiopharmaceutical production at UCSF! We wish him the best in his future endeavors.
December 8th, 2023: We are excited to welcome Aidan Bender, a visiting student with the HIPPO program!
November 11, 2023: We are excited to announce we have four new lab members! Welcome to Georgia, Emma, Morgan, and Zhouran!
October 12, 2023: We bid farewell to our postdoc Raphael Lengacher who is starting an exciting position at Lonza back home in Switzerland. We wish him the best!
September 22, 2023: The Boros lab went to CRIC. It was great to get to meet some of our fellow midwest inorganic chemists! Stay tuned for next year when we host CRIC at UW-Madison!
July 20, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Angus Koller for successfully defending his thesis. We wish him the best as he starts as an Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Southern Maine!
June 01, 2023: The lab has relocated to the University of Wisconsin - Madison!
March 08, 2022: Congratulations to Angus leading a multinational collaboration with Blower, Lapi, Pierre and Robinson groups resulting in a fabulous article on aqueous Ti(IV) coordination chemistry in Angewandte Chemie!
February 15, 2022: Eszter has been selected a 2022 Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry!
December 28, 2021: Congratulations to Jennifer, Brett and Angus on their new paper in Angewandte Chemie, designated a Hot Paper and highlighted by C&EN news!
November 12, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Alexia Cosby on a successful thesis defense and becoming the third Boros lab PhD! Alexia will start her postdoc in the lab of Dr. Rebecca Abergel at the University of California, Berkeley in January 2022.
November 4, 2021: Welcome to the Boros lab, Dr. Raphael Lengacher! Raphael is a recent graduate of the Alberto lab at the University of Zurich.
November 1, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Apurva Pandey on a successful thesis defense and becoming the second Boros lab PhD! Apurva will start her postdoc in the lab of Dr. Michael Evans at the University of California, San Francisco in February 2022.
October 19, 2021: Congrats to Apurva for her paper being accepted in Chemical Science on the development of the potent, gallium-based antibiotic Galbofloxacin and highlights of this work in the News by C&EN News and Chemistry World!
August 19, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Brett Vaughn on a successful thesis defense and becoming the first Boros lab PhD! Brett is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Larson lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
August 15, 2021: The lab is awarded an R35 NIH MIRA grant to study how xenometals affect bacterial metal homeostasis.
June 11, 2021: Congratulations Kirsten and Alexia on publishing their work on multiplex and in vivo imaging with discrete lanthanide CRET probes in JACS!
May 28, 2021: Eszter wins the 2021 Stony Brook Discovery Prize!
April 1, 2021: The lab receives an R21 NIH Trailblazer grant!
January 20, 2021: Welcome to the Boros lab, first year graduate students Minhua Cao (joining from Lynn Francesconi’s lab at CUNY Hunter College) and Jennifer Whetter (joining from the Orvig lab at the University of British Columbia)!
Dec 1, 2020: Eszter is selected as the 2020 Jonathan L. Sessler Fellow (American Chemical Society)
Sept 16, 2020: Eszter is selected as one of five 2020 Moore Inventor Fellows!
May 26, 2020: Congrats Grace on her work on metal-mediated modification of enzyme cleavage efficiency now out in Chemical Communications!
April 28, 2020: Brett is a finalist in the SBU 3 minute thesis competition! Check out all finalist contributions here and vote for the people’s choice award!
March 10, 2020: The lab receives a Proof of Concept and REACH award grant from the Long Island Bioscience Hub!
January 27, 2020: Welcome new undergrads Julian and Lilin!
December 2, 2019: The lab receives an NSF CAREER award!
November 20, 2019: Congrats Brett, Grace and undergrad alum Justin on the scandium magnum opus out now in Chemical Science !
October 14, 2019: Welcome first year graduate student Angus Koller!
October 1, 2019: Congrats to Apurva, Chloe and Grace on our first manuscript on metallosideromycins, just accepted in J Med Chem!
August 30, 2019: Our collaboration with the Johnson group on quantifying inner-sphere aqua ligands in coordination complexes is now out in JACS, featuring Lexi and Apurva’s synthesis and coordination chemistry skills.
August 05, 2019: Lexi and Greg’s paper has appeared in Inorganic Chemistry.
July 26, 2019: Lexi passes her masters defense and continues to the PhD program!
July 24, 2019: Kirsten has been awarded a slot in the NIH T32 Chemical Biology Training Program.
May 25, 2019: Welcome to the team, undergrads Piyusha and Joe!
May 1, 2019: Eszter wins the NAI-SBU Young Academic Inventor’s Award!
March 18, 2019: Eszter is named “One to watch” together with 30 standout young career professionals by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
Feb 15, 2019: It’s raining papers for our group this month: Congratulations to Grace, Daniel, Brett and our friends from the Laughlin lab on their paper on multimodal in vivo imaging of HER2, now out in Molecular Pharmaceutics! Our collaboration with the Wilson group featuring Brett’s Tc-99m chemistry skills is now online in Inorganic Chemistry.
Jan 18, 2019: Welcome first year graduate student Kirsten Martin!
Oct 10, 2018: Congratulations to Alexia and Grace on their paper on Cherenkov radiation mediated excitation of luminescent lanthanides in Angewandte Chemie!
Sept 3, 2018: Welcome, new rotation students! Our lab meets every Monday at 8 am in seminar room 603 for group meeting. Join us for science and cookies.
Aug 29, 2018: Eszter wins an award for top oral presentation at EuroBIC.
July 13, 2018: Grace and Eszter’s mini-review on bimodal imaging probes is published in Cancer Biotherapy & Radiopharmaceuticals.
June 28, 2018: Apurva receives a poster prize at the Metals in Medicine GRC!
June 26, 2018: Grace is selected to present her work at the Metals in Medicine GRC Poster Slam!
May 22, 2018: Brett has been awarded a slot in the NIH T32 Chemical Biology Training Program.
April 14, 2018: Congrats to Alexia for receiving the first year graduate teaching award.
April 7, 2018: Undergrads Chloe and Daniel receive the prestigious URECA summer research stipend to support full time research in the Boros lab during the summer of 2018. Congrats!
March 2, 2018: The lab receives a REACH award grant from the Long Island Bioscience Hub!
February 12, 2018: Arrival of Zr-89 PET isotope from University of Wisconsin-Madison marks the official start of radiochemistry in the Boros lab!
Jan 25, 2018: First year graduate students Alexia, Apurva, Brett and Jaclyn join the Boros group officially after completion of their rotations!
Jan 8, 2018: Post-doc Grace Ahn joins the lab!
Oct 25, 2017: The lab receives approval of an R00 NIH grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
August 2017: First lab meeting of the Boros lab takes place August 28. Come join our breakfast meetings every Monday morning at 8 am in the chemistry building, room 515.
July 2017: Our work on multifunctional desferrichrome analogues as chelators for Zr(IV)-89 is published in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
June 2017: Eszter receives the first place award of the Young Investigator Symposium of the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council at the annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.