June 2024: The Elshahawi lab in collaboration with the Yamaha lab received the Chapman University School of Pharmacy Collaboration Award. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chapman-university-school-of-pharmacy_collaboration-award-honors-drs-yamaki-and-activity-7204868135596752899-iXiB
March 2024: Congratulations to Nagaraju, Basir, Diem, Thao, and Angelica for their interesting story published in Organic Letters “Selective late-stage functionalization of tryptophan-containing peptides to facilitate bioorthogonal tetrazine ligation” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.4c00709
June 2023: A note of congratulations to Ashley for her marvelous work published in ChemBioChem “Promiscuous Enzymes for Residue-Specific Peptide and Protein Late-Stage Functionalization” https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cbic.202300372
May 2023: Kudos to Ahmed, Nagaraju, Diem, Tae Ho, Chris and Chelsea for their outstanding work published in ChemCatChem “Structure-Guided Mutagenesis Reveals the Catalytic Residue that Controls the Regiospecificity of C6-Indole Prenyltransferases” https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cctc.202300423
Nov 2022: The Elshahawi Lab received an R03 grant from the NIAID at the NIH: https://news.chapman.edu/2022/11/21/cusp-professor-gets-r03-grant-for-antibiotics-research/
Feb 2022: A note of congratulations to Dr. Mupparapu, Lauren and Katrina for their hard work published in Chem. Eur. J. “Late-Stage Chemoenzymatic Installation of Hydroxy-Bearing Allyl Moiety on the Indole Ring of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides” at https://chemistryeurope.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202104614
Dec 2021: Congratulations Elshahawi Lab and collaborators for the TerBC story published at ACS Chemical Biology “Structure and Function of a Dual Reductase-Dehydratase Enzyme System Involved in p-Terphenyl Biosynthesis”. https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.libproxy.chapman.edu/34763417/
Aug 2021: Diem Nguyen joined the Elshahawi Lab as a PhD student. Welcome to the lab Diem!
June 2021: The Elshahawi Lab received the Faculty Impact fund, Congratulations all!
June 2021: Cindy Lin graduated with a PharmD degree and started her residency. Congratulations Dr. Lin!
Nov 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Mupparapu, (Dr. to be) Lin and Dr. Kim for their interesting daptomycin story https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202005100. Great job all!
Nov 2019: Zhengfeiyue (Chelsea) Pan presented at the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) and won the best poster award in Life Sciences. Well done Chelsea!
Aug 2019: Ahmed Aoun graduated with a Master’s degree. Good luck Ahmed in your future endeavors!
May 2019: The Elshahawi lab received the Faculty Opportunity Fund, Congratulations all!
May 2019: Tae Ho Kim graduated with a PharmD degree. Congratulations Dr. Kim!
May 2019: Congratulations Ahmed Aoun for receiving the best MSPS poster presentation award at CUSP Annual Research Day
Jan 2019: The Elshahawi Lab was awarded the new investigator award (NIA) from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Congratulations everyone!
Contact us: Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Rinker Health & Science Campus, 9401 Jeronimo Rd, Irvine, CA 92618 elshahawi@chapman.edu