All medicinal chemistry

A'Lester Allen posing outside, while sitting on a stone ledge with greenery in the background.

October 6, 2025

A’Lester Allen: From creating peptides to creative science

The postdoctoral researcher recently became the first at UIC to receive the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award.

illustration of a DNA double helix

March 20, 2019

UIC researchers find hidden proteins in bacteria

Science overturns longstanding assumption

Hops

July 11, 2016

Hops extract studied to prevent breast cancer

Results in cultured cells suggest chemopreventive effect possible

Mike Federle

July 18, 2013

UIC scientist fights war against bacteria

Researcher one of 10 U.S. scientists to receive Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant