December 9      Congrats to Shen! He has successfully defended his PhD thesis.

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.