Chemistry faculty did well in the recent UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program run by the Research and Economic development program. The purpose of the seed grants is to provide funds to enable teams of UCR faculty to collaborate and publish before grant submission, making UCR more competitive for multi-investigator grants from external agencies.  Of the 22 projects funded, 6 (listed below) involved at least one Chemistry faculty member.
 

•  Christian Lytle and Cynthia Larive
  Identification of absorbed fecal solutes by metabolomic profiling, $24,000
• Yinsheng Wang and Jikui Song
  RING Finger and Arsenite-induced Genomic Instability, $50,000
• Jiayu Liao and Michael Pirrung
  Novel SUMOylation Inhibitor as in vivo Probe for Cancer Synthetic Lethality Treatment, $70,000
• Richard Hooley, Quan Cheng and Yinsheng Wang 
  Synthetic Receptors as Selective Hosts and Transfection Agents in Living Cells, $45,000
• Thomas Morton, Leonard Mueller, Christopher Switzer and Ameae Walker 
  Binding to the i-Motif as a Strategy for Inhibiting Cancer Metastasis, $60,000
• Katherine Borkovich, Cynthia Larive and Jason Stajich 
  High-throughput synthetic biology for natural products discovery, $65,000