Dr. Martin D. Burke (MMG), a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
The world around us contains many chemicals that are useful for medicines, crop protection, and animal health. These chemicals—known as natural products—have typically been discovered by sheer luck. Unsurprisingly, traditional techniques often find the same products, like antibiotics, repeatedly thus creating a need for new technologies. To address this growing demand, William Metcalf (MMG leader), a professor of microbiology, co-founded the company MicroMGx in 2015.
Dr. Joanna Shisler, Associate Professor of Microbiology and researcher at the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Beckman Institute, and member of the Computing Genomes for Reproductive Health (CGRH) research theme at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. Shisler, together with Dr.
