Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.

Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.
Professor Weiping Tang’s research, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, is looking to pioneer a new, universal method for synthesizing and accessing challenging glycosides.
The School’s Professor Weiping Tang is the principal investigator on the project that won funding from the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative program.
Stephanie Ann Blaszczyk, a student researcher in the School’s Tang Laboratory, was selected to receive the National Institutes of Health’s Chemistry-Biology Interface program, which will fund her research into carbohydrates for two years.
The early phase of drug discovery is seemingly straight-forward: screen molecules for biological activity, validate screening hits, design and synthesize novel drug molecules for testing in cells and animals. But while drug companies breeze through that process
Coming up with methods of carbohydrate synthesis is difficult work. Yet, it is critical to advancing scientists’ knowledge of carbohydrate structure and biological function. Contributing to that advance, Weiping Tang