2024
February 28 Congrats to Sam! He has been named as a finalist for Ohio State’s 2024 Next Generation Innovator of the Year.
February 4 Congrats to Sijie and Shen! Our paper on target specific peptide design has been accepted to publish in Nat Comm.
January 24 Junjie Zhang joined the lab. Welcome, Junjie!
January 8 Yunkai Chen joined the lab. Welcome, Yunkai!
January 8 Yan Yang joined the lab. Welcome, Yan!
January 8 Shounak Mukherjee joined the lab. Welcome, Shounak!
2023
June 29 Congrats to Rui! He has successfully defended his PhD thesis.
May 10 Congrats to Sijie! She has successfully defended her PhD thesis.
March 1 Our lab receives a new NIH R21 grant on combining mass spectrometry and molecular modeling for probing PROTAC-mediated ternary complex structures.
January 8 Arnav Joshi joined the lab. Welcome, Arnav!
January 8 Jayce Liu joined the lab. Welcome, Jayce!
2022
December 7 Apoorva Purohit joined the lab, welcome Apoorva!
August 15 Our lab receives a new NSF grant on development of absolute quantitative protein footprinting mass spectrometry for probing protein 3D structures.
June 21 Congrats to Zoe! She has successfully defended her PhD thesis.
May 10 Our lab receives a new NSF grant on nanoscale structure and dynamics of a cell-cell adhesion complex.
May 6 Benedict Hui joined the lab. Welcome, Benedict!
April 27 Our lab receives a new NIH bridge grant on development of botanical-derived chemical tools for controlling mosquito vectors.
March 18 Our team was selected to receive a President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator award.
2021
November 15 Michael passed the candidacy exam. Congrats Michael!
August 16 Shen passed the candidacy exam. Congrats Shen!
May 26 Dr. Cheng was among 21 Ohio State researchers appointed to the inaugural Growing Research Opportunities (GRO) Academy cohort.
March 14 Our lab receives a new R01 grant from NIH on the phi29 DNA packaging motor.
2020
August 14 Sijie passed the candidacy exam. Congrats Sijie!
July 27 Rui passed the candidacy exam. Congrats Rui!
2019
August 30 Zoe passed the candidacy exam. Congrats Zoe!
August 15 Michael Burnham joined the lab, welcome Michael! Live long and prosper!
August 15 Shen Wang came back as a graduate student, welcome back Shen!
2018
October 15 Christian O’Neil joined the lab, welcome Christian!
October 15 Austin Cool joined the lab, welcome Austin!
September 1 James Wilson joined the lab, welcome James!
August 16 Visit to Eli Lilly.
August 13 Sijie Chen joined the lab, welcome Sijie!
August 13 Rui Yang joined the lab, welcome Ray!
July 16 Shen Wang joined the lab, welcome Shen!
July 16 Xiaotian Kong joined the lab, welcome Xiaotian!
March 17 Zhenyu Wang joined the lab, welcome Zhenyu!
March 10 Zoe Li joined the lab, welcome Zoe!
2017
November 16 Chun Kevin Chan joined the lab, welcome Kevin!
October 11 Sijin Wu joined the lab, welcome Sijin!
August 15 The Cheng Lab started at OSU.