Yasaman received Ontario Graduate Scholarship!

Congratulations to Yasaman for receiving an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) to support her research on LOOPER development!

Yasaman Mahdavi-Amiri

Hili Group receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

The Hili group receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to outfit their lab with new state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and characterization infrastructure to help further development and application of their LOOPER technology.

Ryan wins Early Researcher Award!

Congrats to Ryan for receiving the Ontario Government's Early Researcher Award. The award provides five years of funding to support the continued development of his research programme.
Read the announcement HERE

Dehui wins "Best Poster Award" at Aptamers in Bordeaux!

Congratulations to Dehui on winning the "Best Poster Award" for her research at the 2017 Aptamers in Bordeaux conference!

Dehui Receiving Poster Award at Aptamers in Bordeaux

Cailen wins 2017 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant!

Congratulations to Cailen for receiving a 2017 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant!! The Graduate School at UGA established this program as part of its strategic initiative to support innovation and interdisciplinary research being conducted by doctoral students.

Cailen McCloskey

Yi wins travel grant!

Congrats to Yi for winning a UGA travel grant to present her research at the ACS National Conference in San Francisco in April!

Yi Lei

Ryan receives Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

Ryan Hili was selected by the editorial boards of Synlett, Synthesis, and Synfacts to receive the 2017 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award.

Hili group is awarded NSF grant!

The Hili Group is awarded an NSF grant from the Division of Chemistry, Chemical Catalysis program to develop a high-throughput small-molecule catalyst discovery platform using amphiphilic DNA-encoded libraries.

Hili group is awarded NIH grant!

The Hili Group is awarded an NIH R21 grant from the Common Fund Glycoscience Program to develop functionalized nucleic acid polymers as glycan recognition molecules.

Ryan receives teaching award

Ryan receives the 2016 G.E. Philbrook Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching from the Northeast Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society.