MIT News – MIT Department of Chemistry

Professor Daniel Suess is seated in a chemical laboratory.

Drawing inspiration from ancient chemical reactions

By studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges.

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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025

The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.

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Breakfast of champions: MIT hosts top young scientists

At AJAS/AAAS, researchers connect with MIT faculty, Nobel laureates, and industry leaders to share work, gain mentors, and explore science careers.

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J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT

For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab has strengthened MIT faculty efforts in water and food research and innovation.

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Associate Professor Xiao Wang sits at a desk in front of a computer screen that displays an image of RNA in cells.

Mapping mRNA through its life cycle within a cell

Xiao Wang’s studies of how and where RNA is translated could lead to the development of better RNA therapeutics and vaccines.

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Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards

Faculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.

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With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.

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A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemics

The nanoparticle-based vaccine shows promise against many variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related sarbecoviruses that could jump to humans.

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Gerard Porter, wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, conducts research at a fume hood.

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is a launching pad toward possibility

Gifted Caribbean high schoolers become SPISE alumni at MIT, and many go on to advanced academic and professional careers.

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Yifan Quan smiles in his office wearing a red turtleneck.

Yifan Quan wins the Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize from Molecular Physics

Quan is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Robert Guy Griffin's research group.

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Robert Gilliard smiles in an outdoor setting.

Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. Appointed Associate Editor of JACS

Established in 1879, the Journal of the American Chemical Society is the flagship journal of the American Chemical Society.

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A launching pad towards possibility: SPISE alumni at MIT

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is an intensive summer program for high school students offered by the Caribbean Science Foundation.

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Artifacts from a half-century of cancer research

Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community.

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