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The Welch Foundation is one of the United States' largest private funding sources for basic chemical research.
Houston, Texas
Joined June 2021
Hear from this year’s Welch Award Recipients, Stuart L. Schreiber and Peter G. Schultz, at the 2025 Welch Conference on Oct. 28. Attendance is free! Register here:
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Endowed Chair Yehia Mechref (@MechrefYehia) and researchers at @TexasTech highlight the complexity and biological relevance of glycosylation in sEV proteins and offer practical guidance for optimizing isolation protocols based on specific omics applications.
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Principal Investigator Neal Alto (@AltoLab_Neal) and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter establish a deubiquitinase-dependent transcriptional control of the inflammatory response to prevent immunopathology, offering new therapeutic avenues for combating infectious diseases.
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Principal Investigator David Taylor and researchers at @UTAustin provide direct evidence as to why Cas9 acts as a single-turnover enzyme and will guide future Cas9 engineering efforts.
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Nature Communications - Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 is perhaps the most widely used CRISPR-Cas enzyme. Here, cryo-EM structures provide insight into the conformational landscape of Cas9 under...
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The Welch Foundation is currently accepting nominations for the 2026 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research. This $100,000 award recognizes early-career chemical scientists in Texas for their contributions to advancing the field of chemistry. Nominations are due Sept. 15.
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Principal Investigator Michael Rosen and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter combine biochemistry and molecular dynamics simulations to examine at single base-pair resolution how nucleosome spacing controls chromatin phase separation.
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Nature Communications - Internucleosomal linker length alters the stability and dynamics of chromatin condensates by shifting the balance between inter- and intramolecular interactions. Further, by...
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Major congratulations to these Welch-supported investigators for being named as 2026 @AmerChemSociety awardees:. ACS Award for Encouraging Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences: Angel A. Martí (@AngelMartiLab), Rice.
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Congratulations to @GeoffreyWCoates for being named the recipient of the 2026 @AmerChemSociety Award in Polymer Chemistry! . Dr. Coates, a member of The Welch Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, focuses on the development of new synthetic strategies for producing polymers of.
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Researchers at @UTAustin have developed a fast, precise new 3D printing method that seamlessly merges soft and hard properties into a single object using different colors of light.
news.utexas.edu
AUSTIN, Texas — Inspired by how nature blends toughness and flexibility, such as the rigid structure of bone surrounded by pliable cartilage, all with
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Principal Investigator Yonglong Xie and researchers at @RiceUniversity investigate the interplay between the light and heavy electrons in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene by performing local compressibility measurements with a scanning single-electron-transistor microscope.
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Endowed Chair Eric N. Olson and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter blocked the symptoms of a rare smooth muscle disease before they developed by using gene editing in a preclinical model.
utsouthwestern.edu
Using gene editing in a preclinical model, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center blocked the symptoms of a rare smooth muscle disease before they developed. Their findings, published in...
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Principal Investigator Jae-Hyun Cho and researchers at @TAMU propose an approach to mitigate the adverse impacts of heterogeneous binding on the BLI analysis.
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Binding characteristics, such as kon, koff, and KD, are critical for the mechanistic study of biomolecular interactions and drug design. Biolayer interferometry (BLI) has become popular due to its...
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The Welch Foundation congratulates Jennifer A. Doudna for being named the recipient of the 2026 Priestly Medal! As a former member of The Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Doudna contributed greatly to our mission of advancing basic chemical research.
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Researchers at @RiceUniversity have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitride nanotubes, touted for their strength, thermal stability and insulating properties, can be coaxed into forming ordered liquid crystalline phases in water.
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"New Horizons in Drug Discovery,” will feature speakers who have made foundational discoveries of new medicines, new drug discovery technology, and strategies for leveraging therapeutic modalities to treat diseases. Register here:
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Principal Investigator Aimin Liu (@Dr_Feradical) and researchers at @UTSA offer new insights into enzyme-controlled indole oxidation in tryptophan-derived natural products.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This study reveals that MarE, a heme-dependent aromatic oxygenase, favors dioxygenation of β-methyl-l-tryptophan in the absence of ascorbate and demonstrates how structural and redox tuning shifts...
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The Welch Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the Welch eXperimental (WelchX) Pilot Grants and the Welch Postdoctoral Fellows of the Life Sciences Research Foundation Grants. To learn more about the researchers and their projects, visit the following link:.
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