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Man standing in front of an ambulance.

(Feb. 24, 2026)

Called to Lead

An interview with biochemistry major Kaden Buford ’28, who has been selected to join the Institute for Responsible Citizenship’s distinguished Washington Program.

Xiaoran Hu portrait

(Feb. 19, 2026)

New “Lock-and-Key” Chemistry

Syracuse University researchers are developing a new chemistry platform that could keep therapeutic drugs inactive until they reach a tumor, offering a potential path to safer, more precise cancer treatment.

Arm receiving ultrasound therapy.

(Oct. 30, 2025)

Transforming Cancer Treatment with Ultrasound

Syracuse University chemists are testing a novel method of using sound waves to activate chemotherapy drugs precisely where they're needed while sparing healthy cells.

Robert Doyle in the lab.

(Oct. 2, 2025)

Reimagining Obesity Treatment

A&S chemistry professor Robert Doyle was featured in Bio IT World for pioneering research on a safer, next-generation weight-loss drug.

rehydrated droplet of yeast proteins.

(Oct. 2, 2025)

Yeast Proteins Reveal Mysteries of Drought Resistance

Some proteins can survive drying out, returning to function when water is re-introduced. Revealing the chemical rules behind this ability could lead to longer-lasting medicines and drought resistant crops.

(Aug. 28, 2025)

Summer Research: Major Impact

Step into the labs where students spent their summer developing research-driven responses to global challenges, blending curiosity with impact.

Depiction of temporary condensates under stress conditions. In magenta is one of our target proteins of interest, UBQLN2, and in green is a stress granule (condensate) marker. The bottom row is a merge containing blue for the nucl

(Aug. 7, 2025)

Protein Droplets: A New Way to Understand Disease

Syracuse University scientists are exploring how our cells use tiny, temporary droplets to gather, fix or degrade damaged proteins in a new multidisciplinary research effort that could have implications in treating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.

A microscopic view of the hindbrain reveals “support cells” (highlighted in green, red, yellow and purple).

(July 30, 2025)

Shortcut to Weight Loss: No Nausea Required

Medicinal chemists at Syracuse University have identified a potential new way to help people lose weight without the nausea and vomiting that make most patients stop taking popular drugs like Ozempic.

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