·      2024.11.19       Our lab’s new project to fight tuberculosis is recognized by UTSA Today.

 

·      2024.8.12       Dr. Liu elected to serve as Co-Chair of the 2026 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways.

 

·      2022.07.01       Our lab received its fifth NSF investigator-initiated research grant since its inception, a prestigious Accomplishment-Based Renewal (ABR) award—the first of its kind received by a UTSA faculty member. See press release at UTSA Today.

 

·      2022.01.26       Dr. Liu was elected a 2021 Fellow of AAAS by the AAAS Council.

 

·      2022.01.11       Ian Davis is featured by the College of Sciences in the #FacultySpotlight.

 

·      2021.09.30       Yifan (Amber) Wang is spotlighted by the College of Sciences as an Awesome Alum.

 

·      2021.09.02       Dr. Liu is inducted into The UTSA Academy of Distinguished Researchers.

 

·      2021.03.01       Our study on non-heme iron-dependent oxygen activation chemistry is featured by NSF Chemistry Highlights.

 

·      2020.10.31       The SSRL-SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory featured our work in a Science Highlight article The Making of an Enzyme-in-Action Movie!

 

·      2020.09.03       Our lab's enzyme-in-action movie published in PNAS is featured by UTSA Today!

 

·      2020.02.17       Ms. Romie Nguyen (now a second-year graduate student) is featured by UTSA Today for her mechanistic study of an essential enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

 

·      2019.08.09       Dr. Inchul Shin’s working photo is featured at the UTSA Think Science and Discovery Day event.

 

·      2018.10.11       Our lab is featured on TV in KLRN SciTech Now (PBS), hosted by Chris Duel.  Ian Davis (graduate student), Jiasong Li (postdoctoral fellow), and Yifan Wang (graduate student) appear in the segment.

 

·      2018.09.05       ScienceDaily   -   Chemists make a historic fluorine discovery impacting how pharmaceutical companies develop new drug treatments.

 

·      2018.09.05       UTSA Today   -   Specific non-natural amino acid incorporation into proteins through genetic code expansion for studying protein-derived cofactors (Dr. Jiasong Li's work featured).

 

·      2017.11.01       EurekAlert, AAAS   -   UTSA researcher collaborates with Canadian geneticist to explore a 30-year-old medical case.

 

·      2017.11.01       UTSA Today   -   Human tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase deficiency (Dr. Inchul Shin's work featured).

 

·      2016.12.16       The Journal of Biological Chemistry   -   Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Yu Yang and graduate student Ian Davis were in the spotlight of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and their publication is selected as "Papers of the Week" and the first paper in the Enzymology virtual issue

 

·      2015.06.15       ScienceDaily   -   Researchers discover a new enzyme linked to iron in vitamin A synthesis.

 

·      2015.02.12       Georgia State University   -   Dr. Aimin Liu named Distinguished University Professor.

 

·      2015.01.08       National Science Foundation   -   Researchers make discoveries in a key pathway for neurological diseases.

 

·      2015.01.07       Medical News Today   -   New discoveries in a key pathway for neurological diseases.

 

·      2014.10.09       Georgia State University   -   Dr. Aimin Liu awarded the prestigious Outstanding Senior Faculty Award.

 

·      2013.05.08       Georgia State University News – Chemistry Professor’s discovery of a biological "Charge-Resonance (CR) Stabilization Phenomenon" described in a prestigious PNAS publication

 

·      2013.04.19       Georgia State University News – Chemistry Professor’s discovery that the human nuclear metalloprotein Pirin is an iron-dependent redox regulator of NF-κB" described in a prestigious PNAS publication.

 

·      2013.02.01       Chemistry Professor’s discovery of a diradical intermediate in protein-derived cofactor biogenesis described in a prestigious PNAS publication.