December 1, 2025

Another awesome Dr. has come out of the Tepe lab - Congrats Dr. Daniel Colombani-Garay for completing your PhD! We're so proud of you!

December 8, 2025

New member alert: Welcome Sky and Allison to the Tepe lab! We're excited to have you join us.

November 17, 2025

We are proud to announce another amazing Dr. has come out of the Tepe lab - Dr. Sydney Cobb! We've been so fortunate to have her as a member of the lab (and a friend!) these past 5 years.

November 14, 2025

A huge congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Evan Savelson! We are so proud of all the great work you've done in the Tepe lab and will miss you when you head off to UW Madison for your post-doc!

November 1, 2025

Miracle was chosen as the 2025 Sigma Xi's International Forum of Research Excellence Student Research Competition winner out of 300 people in the graduate division of chemistry! Along with this prestigious award she will receive induction into the Sigma Xi society, a cash prize, and a medal. We are so proud of you, Miracle!

November 15, 2025

Miracle did a great job giving an oral presentation at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research conference (CVCRC)!

October 14, 2025

Miracle and Shannon both had fun presenting at the UVA chemistry department retreat!

November 7, 2025

The Tepe lab won the Shut the Sash competition raffle! We're proud of our lab's continued efforts to maintain safe and sustainable laboratory practices! A special shout out to Kayla for spearheading this effort!

September 26, 2025

Sydney published a paper! Check out "Recent Advancements in 20S Proteasome Enhancement: Degradation of Undruggable Targets" a microperspective on 20S proteasome enhancement!

September 28, 2025

Happy birthday, Daniel!

September 17, 2025

Happy birthday, Linh!

September 23, 2025

Happy birthday, Kayla!

September 8, 2025

Happy birthday, Adam!

August 15, 2025

Konika is now the co-director of UVA's postdoctoral association (PDA)!

August 15, 2025

A huge congratulations to Konika for receiving the UVA Brain Institute Professional Development Award!

May 16, 2025

Konika won 1st place at the UVA Postdoctoral Symposium lightening talk! Congrats, Konika!

June 6, 2025

Congrats to Kate for graduating with her M.S.! We're so proud of you and will miss having you in lab!

August 1, 2025

Congrats to Miracle for receiving the UVA Cancer Center's Trainee Travel Award!

May 15, 2025

Huge congrats to Shannon for winning the UVA Cancer Center's collaborative drug discovery project fellowship! Nice work!

August 21, 2025

Linh, Daniel, Shannon, Sydney, and Miracle all had a great time presenting their work at ACS fall 2025 in Washington DC! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our posters/presentations.

August 8, 2025

Linh had a great time at the Gordon Research Med Chem conference!

August 8, 2025

Evan and Jeremy (Harman Lab) published a paper in JACS! Go check it out!

August 21, 2025

Happy birthday, Dr. Tepe!

August 5, 2025

Happy birthday, Konika!

July 24, 2025

Happy Birthday, Shannon!

December 20, 2024

New Members Alert: Welcome Bolade, Kayla, and Josh to the Tepe lab!

April 1, 2025

CONGRATS to Daniel for being awarded an NIH R36 Research Dissertation Award! This is a very competitive award and a huge accomplishment!

April 18, 2025

A huge congratulations to Linh for receiving the 2025 ACS MEDI Division Predoctoral Fellowship! We're so proud of her for this wonderful achievement.

March 4, 2025

Evan published a paper!

April 2, 2025

Happy birthday, Bolade!

February 22, 2025

Miracle and Dr. Dare George published a paper!

February 17, 2025

Congratulations to Linh, our new PhD candidate, for passing her qualifying exams!

December 16, 2024

A huge congratulations to Dr. Charles Anamoah for defending his dissertation! We will miss you!

December 12, 2024

Congrats Dr. Konika Thukral for successfully defending her dissertation! We're so proud of you!

November 25, 2024

Happy birthday Eslam!

September 10, 2024

Miracle has been appointed the Public Relations Officer for GAPSA (Graduate and Professional Students of Africa) and the Secretary for OURS (Organization of UnderRepresented Students)! Congrats on these two honors!

August 29, 2024

Congrats to Charles for winning the MSU Graduate School Travel Fellowship!

October 6, 2024

Happy birthday Miracle!

September 28, 2024

Happy birthday Daniel!

September 17, 2024

Happy birthday Linh!

September 8, 2024

Happy birthday Adam!

August 21, 2024

Happy birthday Dr. Tepe!

August 5, 2024

Happy birthday Konika!

July 24, 2024

Happy birthday Shannon!

July 20, 2024

Happy birthday Charles!

June 26, 2024

Shannon received the ACS WCC Eli Lilly Travel Award to attend ACS Fall! Congrats Shannon!

June 25, 2024

Dare successfully defended his dissertation! Congrats Dr. George!

June 27, 2024

Congrats to both Charles and Konika for winning the MSU Dissertation Completion Fellowship, we are so proud of you two!

July 1, 2024

Happy Birthday Dare!

May 19, 2024

Charles, Daniel, and Sydney had a great time presenting at and attending the ASPET conference!

May 20, 2024

Congrats to Kyra for her new job as Associate Scientist II - Process Chemistry at AbbVie!

May 10, 2024

Happy birthday Sydney!

June 3, 2024

Sophie and Charles published a paper in iScience! Congrats!

April 18, 2024

Konika had a great time at the Merck Emerging Talent Symposium! We're so proud of her for getting chosen for this amazing event!

April 26, 2024

Kyra published a paper! Check out "Advances in the Total Synthesis of Bis- and Tris-Indole Alkaloids Containing N-Heterocyclic Linker Moieties" in Natural Product Reports. Congrats Kyra!

April 9, 2024

Congrats to Kyra for successfully passing her master's thesis defense! We're so proud of her and cannot wait to see what she does next!

February 13, 2024

Konika and Charles both had a great time attending and presenting at the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center diversity event!

February 25, 2024

Happy birthday Evan!

December 18, 2023

Allison successfully defended! Congratulations Dr. Vanecek!

December 12, 2023

Sophia successfully defended! Congratulations Dr. Staerz!

July 11, 2023

Dare won the Best Poster Award at NOS for his project - the total synthesis of nagelamide W. Well deserved!

August 4, 2023

Dare was selected as the recipient of the John A. Penner Fellowship, a very prestigious award! Congrats, Dare!

December 1, 2023

New Member Alert: Welcome to the group, Linh!

April 10, 2023

Shannon and Sydney both passed their 2nd year orals!

May 30, 2023

Konika was selected to be a Great IDEA Fellow! Congrats, Konika!

March 17, 2023

Allison Published a Paper!

May 2, 2023

Taylor successfully defended his dissertation! Congrats, Dr. Martinez-Fiolek!