University of Virginia Main Campus issued the following announcement on Aug.6
Robert Gilliard likes making new things.
“One of the things about synthetic chemistry that I really love – the types of molecules I have been able to make now in my research group, this is the first time the world has ever seen them,” Gilliard said.
Gilliard, a University of Virginia chemistry professor (and currently a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), manipulates chemistry to create compounds from fundamental reactions, then seeks practical applications for them.
His work has attracted a lot of attention. In the past year, Gilliard has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which provides support for the general functioning of his lab, not a specific project; and a grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation’s Beckman Young Investigator Program, for his work with temperature-responsive molecules. The National Academy of Sciences also has selected him as a Kavli Fellow, which includes an invite to participate in the Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California, in October at the academy’s Beckman Center.
“We have published a number of important papers over the last two to three years, and that, in combination with the new data that is coming out of the lab, has generated some excitement,” Gilliard said.
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