February 2024 – our work “2H-Thiopyran-2-Thione Sulfine, a Compound For Converting H2S to HSOH/H2S2 and Increasing Intracellular Sulfane Sulfur Levels” is published in Nature Communications.
February 2024 – We welcome Dr. Sen Zhang and Ms. Charlotte Bain joining our lab.
January 2024 – our work “Thioglucose-derived Tetrasulfide, a Unique Polysulfide Model Compound” is published in Redox Biology.
December 2023 – our work “Selenium-Based Catalytic Scavengers for Concurrent Scavenging of H2S and Reactive Oxygen Species” is published in Angew Chem Int Ed.
December 2023 – two new graduate students, Yuqing Wang and Luke Lu, have joined our lab. Welcome!
July 2023 – Meg Shieh’s NIH F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship is funded! Congratulations!
April 2023 – our review article “Recent development of polysulfides: Chemistry and biological applications” is published in Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.
April 2023 – Meg Shieh was selected as one of twelve speakers for the 2023 Research Matters Program at Brown University. She gave an outstanding talk on ‘Mapping Cardiovascular Disease’. Good job Meg!!! here is the video: https://youtu.be/QNyT98GhD_U
April 2023 – Dr. Eshani Das joined our lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
January 2023-Zannatun Noor joined our lab as a new graduate student. Welcome!
January 2023- Akil Hamsath successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Hamsath. Dr. Qi Cui moved to Cornell University to pursue his postdoc training.
October 2022 – Our work ‘Controllable cycloadditions between 2H-(thio)pyran-2-(thi)ones and strained alkynes: a click-and-release strategy for COS/H2S generation’ is published in Organic Letters. Another work ‘Detection of sulfane sulfur species in biological systems’ is published in Redox Biology.
August 2022 – Our paper “Shining a light on SSP4: a comprehensive analysis and biological applications for the detection of sulfane sulfurs” is published in Redox Biology. Another paper “Intramolecular tetrazine-acryloyl cycloaddition: chemistry and applications” is published in Chemical Science.
July 2022 – Dr. Xian is appointed as the Jesse H. Metcalf endowed Chair.
June 2022 – Shane Kelly successfully defended his Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Kelly!
May 2022 – our paper ‘Benzothiazole-derived sulfones and sulfoxides as reactive templates for biothiols and sulfane sulfurs’ is published in Org. Lett. Another paper ‘C-Nitrosothioformamide: a donor template for dual Release of HNO and H2S’ is published in ChemBioChem. It is featured as the front cover!
March 2022 – Jess Knight successfully defended her Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Knight!
January 2022 – Dr. Biswajit Roy joined our lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
October 2021 – RJ Chadha transferred to Caltech to continue his PhD. Good luck RJ!
September 2021 – We welcome two new graduate students Meg Shieh and Stephen Lindahl doing rotations in our lab.
September 2021 – We welcome a new postdoc researcher-Dr. Qi Cui to our lab. Dr. Cui received his PhD from Peking University, under Prof. Zhixiang Yu.
September 2021 – our review article “The path to controlled delivery of reactive sulfur species” is accepted by Acc. Chem. Res.
August 2021 – Xiang’s work “A sweet H2S/H2O2 dual release system and specific protein S-persulfidation mediated by thioglucose/glucose oxidase” is accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.
April 2021 – Shane’s work “Oxygen-to-oxygen silyl migration of alpha-siloxy sulfoxides and oxidation-triggered allicin formation” is accepted by Org. Lett. Our review article “Fluorescent probes for H2S detection: cyclization-based approaches” is accepted by the book “Hydrogen Sulfide: Chemical Biology Basics, Detection Methods, Therapeutic Applications, and Case Studies”, Wiley Series in Drug Discovery and Development.
April 2021 – Anna Wang successfully defended her Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Wang!
March 2021 – our work on machine learning assisted fluorescent dye development is published in Chemistry-Methods.
February 2021 – Akil received a NIH F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, good job!!!
December 2020 – A 1st year graduate student RJ Chadha joined our lab. Welcome RJ!
June 2020 – We moved to Brown University!
Dec. 2019 Steve Xu completed his PhD at WSU, Congratulations Dr. Xu!
June 2019 – Our selenylsulfide work was accepted by Organic Letters. Congrats to Akil and co-authors.
June 2019 – Our H2S scavenger work has been highlighted by C&EN, check this link https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/medicinal-chemistry/Datamining-hydrogen-sulfide-antidote/97/i26?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=CEN
June 2019 – Our H2S scavenger work has been published in Angew Chem Int Ed.
May 2019 – Jacob Day has completed his PhD at WSU and is going to Northwestern University for his postdoc training with Prof. Richard Silverman. Ms. Deshka Neill has completed her undergraduate training and is going to UC Berkeley for her PhD degree. Thank you for your hard work in our lab. You will be missed. Wish you all the best!
June 2018 – H2S fluorescent sensor database is on-line. Thanks NSF for funding this project! You can find info about all reported sensors: http://sensor.eecs.wsu.edu/index/
May 2018 – Jianming successfully defended his Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Kang!
April 2018 – Our work on O to S relay deprotection for the design of donors for reactive sulfur species has been published in Angew Chem Int Ed.
April 2018 – Deshka Neill won the top award-Crimson Award (1st place) in WSU Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA). Good job Deshka!
March 2018 – Jake Day is awarded the Anne and Russ Fuller Fellowship. Our review article about hydrogen polysulfides has been accepted by Br. J. Pharmacol. Congratulations!
January 2018 – Our work on cyclic acyl disulfides/selenylsulfides has been published in Org. Lett. Congratulations to Jianming, Aaron, Wei.
January 2018 – Jianming just got married! Congratulations!!
January 2018 – Our work on trisulfide synthesis has been accepted by Organic Letters. Congratulations to Steve, Yingying, Miles, and Aaron!
December 2017 – Congratulations to Wei Chen for his Angew paper on the new fluorescent dyes, the Washington Red series. See the news: https://news.wsu.edu/2017/12/11/bioimaging-dye-breakthrough/
December 2017 – Welcome the new visiting professor-Dr. Heng Liu from Hubei University, China
August 2017- We have completed our move to a completely remodeled Troy Hall!!
June 2017 – Congratulations to Armando and Tyler for completing their PhD!!!!
May 2017 – Congratulations to Jacob Day for receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, aka NIH F31predoctoral fellowship. See the news: https://news.wsu.edu/2017/05/09/chemistry-student-mistake-becomes-fellowship/
July 2015 – Congratulations to Steve on his marriage to Yingying Wang!
Congratulations to Armando and Jianming on their publication in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on the cardioprotective effects of N-mercapto based hydrogen sulfide donors!
June 2015 – Congratulations to Tyler, on his engagement to Karin!
May 2015 – Congratulations to Bo, for being awarded the RA of the Year in the Chemistry Department.