Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.
Weiping Tang
Exploratory NIH Grant Supports Professor Weiping Tang’s Innovative Carbohydrate Synthesis Research
Professor Weiping Tang’s research, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, is looking to pioneer a new, universal method for synthesizing and accessing challenging glycosides.
New Award Will Support Faster, More Powerful Drug Lead Development
The School’s Professor Weiping Tang is the principal investigator on the project that won funding from the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative program.
Student Researcher Chosen for NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
Stephanie Ann Blaszczyk, a student researcher in the School’s Tang Laboratory, was selected to receive the National Institutes of Health’s Chemistry-Biology Interface program, which will fund her research into carbohydrates for two years.
Medicinal Chemistry Center Moves Drug Discovery Forward With Unparalleled Expertise
The early phase of drug discovery is seemingly straight-forward: screen molecules for biological activity, validate screening hits, design and synthesize novel drug molecules for testing in cells and animals. But while drug companies breeze through that process
UW–Madison School of Pharmacy Scientists Develop New Mild Glycosylation Method of Carbohydrate Synthesis
Coming up with methods of carbohydrate synthesis is difficult work. Yet, it is critical to advancing scientists’ knowledge of carbohydrate structure and biological function. Contributing to that advance, Weiping Tang