We are grateful to the agencies that support our research.
Over the years, the following projects were/are funded:
Integrated Drug Discovery Scheme for Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
funded by the National Institute of
Health
(NIH)
in collaboration with A. L. Barabasi (ND) and Zoltan Oltvai(Pittsburgh) (2006-2012)
Mechanisms and Models of DNA Photolyase
funded by the National Institute of
Health
(NIH)
through a FIRST Award (1997-2003)
Pericyclic Reactions of Radical Ions
funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a CAREER Award (1998-2003) ,
renewed as " Structure,
Reactivity, and Selectivity of Hydrocarbon Radical Cations" (2004-2007)
Electron Transfer Induced Reactions of Strained Systems
funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung through joined grant together with the group of Prof. Hopf
at the University of Braunschweig
(Germany) (1997-2000)
New Building Blocks for Molecular Computing
funded by the Research Corporation
through
the Research Innovation Program (1998-1999)
This work is also part of a larger research effort in collaboration
with Tom Fehlner, Greg
Hartland and
Marya Lieberman
in the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry and Gary
Bernstein, Jerry Iafrate, Craig
Lent,
Wolfgang Porod and Greg
Snider in the Department of Electrical Engineering and funded
the MOLETRONICS program
of DARPA
Walther Cancer Foundation Center for Excellence in Cancer Research
The Wiest group is also part of this recently established center,
dedicated
to basic research on cancer and funded by the Walther
Cancer Foundation.
For more information, visit the Walther
Cancer Center's homepage.
In addition, we receive(d) further support from:
Cambridge Isotope Laboratories
National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)
Maui High Performance Computing Center
The Dreyfus Foundation
through a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
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