September 16, 2024
Welcome to our new AI & ML engineer Vigneshwaran!
September 4, 2024
Welcome to our new student Michal!
August 14, 2024
Congratulations to David for winning the Welcome Week Student Poster competition!
August 14, 2024
Biagon Inc. featured in an Illinois Tech News Article and the IIT Research magazine.
June 24, 2024
Welcome to our new student Talha!
April 25, 2024
Congratulations to our Chemistry department awardees Ella (Kilpatrick Fellowship), David (Senior Undergraduate Award), and Joseph (Teaching Assistant)!
April 19, 2024
Congratulations to the Biagon team, including David, Joseph, and Jim, for winning second prize in the Kaplan Pitch Tank!
January 2024
Welcome new students Aiman and Brandon!
Fall 2023
Welcome new students Anna, Beomjong, Luis, Poshan, Pranami, Urvi, and Ryan!
May 2, 2023
Stanley featured in an Illinois Tech News Article.
April 27, 2023
Congratulations, David, for winning the Kilpatrick Scholarship for the best undergraduate chemistry student.
April 27, 2023
Congratulations, Stanley, for winning the Undergraduate Karl Menger Award for the best undergraduate applied mathematics student.
April 3, 2023
Congratulations, Stanley, for being a awarded a fellowship by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
January 9, 2023
Welcome new students Barien, David, Kevin, and Thitipun!
August 19, 2022
Congratulations, Stanley, for winning the Illinois Tech Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the College of Computing at the inaugural Illinois Tech Welcome Week Student Research Poster Day!
March 14, 2022
We presented an international workshop on modeling biological macromolecules at Simon Bolivar University in Barranquilla, Colombia</a>.
March 3, 2022
Welcome to Qi, who is finishing up his Ph.D. with us.
January 10, 2021
Welcome to Jennifier and Sivanujan, our new Ph.D. students!
August 20, 2021
Congratulations, Ella, for being awarded the 2nd best chemistry poster at the Biology, Chemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, and Physics Departments Poster Day!
July 2, 2021
We organized an international workshop on modeling biological macromolecules.
June 15, 2021
David presents implicit ligand theory at the 2020 Workshop on Free Energy Methods in Drug Design.
December 7, 2020
David presents implicit ligand theory for the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at UIUC.
August 24, 2020
Welcome to Jaycee, Joseph, Sophie, and Ella, our new Ph.D. students!
July 16, 2020
Oscar Juarez, Karina Tuz, and David file a patent for CROWNase, a potential COVID-19 treatment. The technology transfer office has made a nonconfidential summary available.
June 1, 2020
David designated as the inaugural Robert E. Frey, Jr. Term Chair in Chemistry.
This endowment will help the CCB Lab to pursue research applying machine learning to chemistry.
April 6, 2020
Congratulations, Jim, on passing your Ph.D. qualifying exam!
March 1, 2020
Congratulations, Soohaeng, on your promotion to Research Assistant Professor!
December 29, 2019
Congratulations, Bing, on your postdoctoral position at the NIH!
September 11, 2019
David selected as one of 40 under 40 Chicago Scientists by Halo Cures.
April 16, 2019
David honored with a Junior Faculty Award.
April 5, 2018
David awarded tenure and promotion.
December 12, 2018
David honored with a College of Science Dean’s Excellence Award.
August 16, 2018
We were awarded a NIH R01 grant for fast binding free energy calculations.
The research groups of David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, and Oscar Juarez, assistant professor of biology, have received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH/1R01GM127712-01A1) entitled “Entropy for End-Point and FFT-Based Binding Free Energy Calculations.”
April 12, 2018
We published a new version of implicit ligand theory for relative binding free energies.
David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, and Trung Hai Nguyen, senior research associate, recently published an article, “Implicit Ligand Theory for Relative Binding Free Energies,” in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
January 30, 2018
David named the Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation.
David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, has been named associate director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) at Illinois Tech.
September 26, 2017
We published a method for using constrained dynamics in equilibrium simulation.
Much like weather forecast models predict the trajectory of a hurricane, computational tools known as molecular dynamics simulations predict the microscopic motion of an interacting system of molecules.
July 18, 2017
We discovered a substrate binding site in an important bacterial ion pump.
The research groups of Oscar Juarez, assistant professor of biology, and David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, have discovered a new structural motif in an essential Vibrio cholerae enzyme that could lead to important drug development.
May 10, 2017
Chen selected as a “CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher”.
Chen Li, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry working with Assistant Professor David Minh, was selected as a “CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher” for the workshop “From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB2017)” at the University of Cincinnati.
October 20, 2015
We were awarded a NIH grant on implicit ligand theory.
August 13, 2015
David to help host the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference at IIT.
The College of Science and Department of Chemistry will host the 35th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference (MECC) on Saturday, September 12, 2015, in the Hermann Hall Ballroom.
April 28, 2015
John awarded a Undergraduate Summer Research Stipend. Congratulations!
October 31, 2014
Our work was featured in International Science Grid This week.
