Apr 11 2025

Research Day 2025

April 11, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location

UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford

Address

1601 Parkview Ave., Rockford, IL

Save the date for the 30th Annual Research Day on the UIC Health Science Campus-Rockford!

Friday, April 11, 2025

Dr. Morten P. Meldal, awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is our keynote speaker. A professor at the University of Copenhagen and head of the Center of Evolutionary Chemical Biology, Dr. Meldal has a unique influence on methods used in peptide and combinatorial chemistry. His pioneering work spans combinatorial chemistry, click chemistry, polymer chemistry, and more, influencing fields from synthetic biology to nano assays.

Dr. Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram, Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Michael L. and the Susan M. Glasser Professor of Rural Health Professions Education and Research, will serve as the Chair for the 2025 Research Day. He leads research on vaccines against lymphatic filariasis and gene mining of schistosome and lymphatic filarial parasites. His team’s work includes identifying vaccine candidates and advancing strategies for effective immunization.

Watch the Research Day page for further details!

Contact

Daliah Brown

Date posted

Jul 23, 2024

Date updated

Oct 9, 2024