April 2025: Dr. Yvonne Bessem Ojong wins the CSPS Award of Leadership in Canadian Pharmaceutical Sciences, conferred by the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. This distinguished award acknowledges Dr. Ojong’s exemplary leadership in pharmaceutical research, and her dedication to advancing drug development and innovation in Canada. To be received on May 28, 2025. Congrats, Yvonne!
February 2025: Dr. Yvonne Bessem Ojong wins the Recognition for Contributions to COVID-19 and Vaccine Research awarded by Gemini Events of 237 Cameroonian Excellence and the MP of Ajax Municipality, this accolade highlights Dr. Ojong’s vital work in vaccine development and public health initiatives during the global pandemic. Congrats, Yvonne!
February 2025: Dr. Yvonne Bessem Ojong wins the Award for Trailblazing Work in Chemistry, Science, and Healthcare presented by Gemini Events of 237 Cameroonian Excellence in collaboration with the Member of Parliament for Ajax Municipality, Canada. This award recognizes Dr. Ojong’s pioneering efforts in scientific innovation and her commitment to uplifting the Black community through impactful healthcare advancements. Congrats, Yvonne!
January 2025: Sarah Ghafari joins the Beyeh Lab as a Honor’s College Thesis Undergrad. Welcome, Sarah!
November 2024: Dr. Deblina Roy joins the Beyeh Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the NSF Career award project on halogen bonded materials. Welcome, Deblina!
October 2024: Max Kakos joins the Beyeh Lab as an Undergrad. Welcome, Max!
September 2024: Congratulations to Prof. Ngong Beyeh, co-PI on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 Award to work on Diabetic Retinopathy 2024-2026!
August 2024: Abdullah Abdulmuttalib joins the Beyeh Lab as a Honor’s College Thesis Undergrad. Welcome, Abdullah!
July 2024: Our first paper in petroleum asphaltene research “A resorcinarene-based crude oil asphaltene dispersant” just got accepted in the journal Fuel. Congratulations to the team of students that did this work.
May 2024: Lourd Lazar joins the Beyeh Lab as a 2024 SURP undergraduate student. Welcome, Lourd!
April 2024: Dr. Kwaku Twum thesis “Functionalization of Resorcinarenes for applications in supramolecular chemistry ” won the 2023 “Most Outstanding Dissertation Award.” This is the best dissertation for the entire Oakland University in 2023. Congrats Kwaku!!
March 2024: Our paper was one of the most downloaded* during its first 12 months of publication in CHEMISTRY – A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Simultaneous Organic and Inorganic Host-Guest Chemistry within Pillararene-ProteinCage Frameworks
January 2024: Mas Salman, Gisele Koods and Noor Attar join the Beyeh Lab as an Honor’s College Theses undergrads. Welcome, Mas, Gisele and Noor!
January 2024: Abena A. Adjei joined the Beyeh laboratory as a graduate student. She will be working on the NSF Career award project on halogen bonding. Welcome Abena!!
December 2023: Dr. Chandan Giri joins the Beyeh Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the NSF Career award project on halogen bonded materials. Welcome, Chandan!
November 2023: An OU news article celebrating National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for three investigators in one year. A real banner year for OU. Congratulations to Prof. Beyeh, Prof. Louie, and Prof. Jun Chen!!!
September 2023: An OU news article on the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award! Congratulations to Prof. Ngong Beyeh and the lab!!
August 2023: Prof. Beyeh is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Oakland University. Congrats!!
August 2023: Congratulations to Prof. Ngong Beyeh, the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award 2023-2028!
April 2023: The Beyehlab celebrates the graduation of three members.
- Congrats to Dr. Kwaku Twum, the first doctorate from the Beyehlab at Oakland University.
- Congrats to Lara Dhayni for completing an MSc with the Beyehlab
- Congrats to Zachary Christodulu for completing an Honors Thesis with the Beyehlab.
April 2023: Prof. Beyeh’s paper “Repurposing host-guest chemistry to sequester virulence and eradicate biofilms in multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii” is published in Nature Communications. Highly Collaborative work between USA, Finland & Canada.
January 2023: Dr. Kwaku, Frank and Dr. Bessem’s paper “The “nitrogen effect”: Complexation with macrocycles potentiates fused heterocycles to form halogen bonds in competitive solvents” is published in Chemistry, An Asian Journal. Congrats!
January 2023: Congratulations to Kwaku Twum for successfully defending his doctorate, the first from the Beyeh lab. Congrats!
January 2023: Prof. Beyeh’s paper “Resorcinarene cages: a new class of potential 129Xe biosensors with unique chemical shift and exchange dynamics” is published in Cell Reports Physical Science.
December 2022: Congratulations to Nicholas Schileru for defending his thesis and graduating with his MSc. while in Med School. Congrats!
Summer 2022: Congratulations to Kwaku Twum for the recognition as one of the 2022 Merck Research Award for “Underrepresented Chemists of Color” Congrats!
June 2022: Join us at CERM 2022, ACS Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
https://sites.google.com/view/cerm-2022/home?authuser=0
April 2022: Congratulations to Anna Karle for the recognition as “the most outstanding senior undergraduate organic chemistry student” by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry!
February 2022: Our paper on the simultaneous uptake of organic and inorganic pollutants by a cyclophane-Protein cage framework is published Chemistry, A European Journal, and is selected for cover art. Congrats to our collaborators at Aalto University, Finland.
January 2022: Our paper on the high-affinity binding of pyrophosphate in water is published in Organic Chemistry Frontiers. Congrats to the team of students and collaborators.
November 2021: Congratulations to Kwaku on receiving an OU Provost Graduate Research Award!
November 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Ngong Beyeh the recipient of the ACS PRF DNI award from the American Chemical Society that will support our research for the next two years, 2022-2024.
October 2021: Our paper on Crystallin de-aggregation is published in RSC MedChem and is selected for cover art. Congrats to the team of students and collaborators.
August 2021: Prof. Beyeh is nominated as one of 2021 Emerging Investigators in ACS Crystal Growth & Design
April 2021: Jordan Feder graduates with an MSc. in Chemistry. Congratulations Jordan.
April 2020: Prof. Beyeh graduates from the Oakland University PI Academy.
March 2020: Prof. Beyeh receives an OU 2020 Inspiration Award. Nominated by Lauren Barbarich. Thank you, Lauren.
September 2019: Fall semester begins, the start of many new projects and learning!
May 2019: Summer research officially begins! Welcome Maya, Cory, Elan, Bianca, and Anthony.
January 2019: Jordan Feder joins the Beyeh Lab as a Master’s student specializing in organic synthesis. Welcome, Jordan!
October 2018: Nicholas Schileru joins the Beyeh Lab as a Master’s student focusing on biomaterial science. Welcome, Nicholas!
September 2018: MSc. Kwaku Twum joins the Beyeh Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Kwaku!
August 2018: Prof. Beyeh’s paper “Crystalline Cyclophane–Protein Cage Frameworks” has been accepted by ACS Nano (link).
August 2018: Prof. Beyeh’s paper “A supramolecular host-guest complex for heparin binding and sensing” has been accepted by Nanoscale (link).
August 2018: Dr Beyeh’s paper “Host–guest complexes of conformationally flexible C-hexyl-2-bromoresorcinarene and aromatic N-oxides: solid-state, solution and computational studies” has been accepted by Beilstein J. Org. Chem. (link).
August 2018: Prof. Beyeh joins the department of chemistry at Oakland University as an assistant professor
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