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  • August 2025: Prof. Jennifer Basil and Ana Bartolomé for publishing “Lay Health Navigators: An Initiative to Navigate Community Members into Lung Cancer Screening” in Health Education Research.
  • June 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Aneta Mieszawska for publishing “Synthesis and Characterization of Poly Nanoparticles Evaluated in Ovarian Cancer Models” in Pharmaceutics.
  • June 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “Recruitment and Retention of Chinese Men at High Risk for Lung Cancer: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Uptake” in Public Health in Practice.
  • June 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “Substance Use Prevention among Asian American Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Literature” in Health Behavior Research.
  • May 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Emilio Gallicchio and Prof. Ryan Murelli for publishing “Deconstruction of Desacetamidocolchicine’s B Ring Reveals a Class 3 Atropisomeric AC Ring with Tubulin Binding Properties” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
  • May 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Aneta Mieszawska for publishing “Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid)–Paclitaxel (PLGA-PTX) Nanoparticles Evaluated in Ovarian Cancer Models” in Pharmaceutics.
  • March 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Aneta Mieszawska for publishing “Peptide-Coated Nanoparticles for Noninvasive Biomedical Imaging” in Methods in Molecular Biology.
  • January 2025: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “Refinement of a Meaning-Centered Counseling Program for Chinese Patients with Advanced Cancer: Integrating Cultural Adaptation and Implementation Science Approaches” in BMC Health Services Research.
  • November 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Ryan Murelli for publishing “Intermolecular Oxidopyrylium (5 + 2) Cycloaddition/ Reductive Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of α-Methoxytropone” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
  • October 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Emilio Gallicchio for publishing “Binding Selectivity Analysis from Alchemical Receptor Hopping and Swapping Free Energy Calculations” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry.
  • September 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates for publishing Florence Lui “Developing the Meaning-Centered Program for Chinese Americans With Advanced Cancer: Applying Cultural Adaptation Frameworks” in the Asian American Journal of Psychology.
  • September 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Mariana Torrente for publishing “Histone Post-Translational Modification and Heterochromatin Alterations in Neurodegeneration: Revealing Novel Disease Pathways and Potential Therapeutics” in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.
  • September 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Alexander Greer for publishing “Photosensitized Oxidative Damage from a New Perspective: The Influence of Before-Light and After-Light Reaction Conditions” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
  • July 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Assistant Prof. Murat Alper Cevher for receiving the “Characterizing Cell-Specific Interaction of Oncogenic Activator RUNX1 with Transcriptional Coactivator Mediator in Colon Cancer” ACS DICRIDG  Pilot grant.
  • July 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Assistant Prof. Ankit Jain for receiving the “Developing Structured Coacervates as Novel Drug Delivery Systems” GRAY FOUNDATION – Research. Innovate. Impact. Seed grant.
  • July 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Assistant Prof. Ankit Jain for receiving the “Developing Structured Coacervates as Novel Drug Delivery Systems” RF CUNY – PSC-CUNY Award Program grant.
  • July 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Shaneen Singh for receiving the “In Silico Analysis to Model NCL-BRCA1 Mediated DNA Repair in Breast Cancer: A BRCT Point of View” RF CUNY – PSC-CUNY Award Program grant.
  • July 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for receiving the “Development of Gold-Based Chemo- and Targeted Therapies for the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma” RF CUNY – PSC-CUNY Award Program grant.
  • June 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “An Innovative Approach to Promote Weight Loss Among Mexican Immigrants: A Pilot Study” in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
  • June 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for receiving the “ Study of the Activity of a RutheniumBased Anticancer Agent and its Optimized Targeted Formulations in BRCA1-Defective Triple Negative Breast Cancer” GRAY FOUNDATION – Research. Innovate. Impact. Seed grant.
  • June 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Assistant Prof. Sheena Philogene for receiving the “Extended Analysis of Breast and Ovarian Cancer Incidence Trends in Brooklyn NY: A Geospatial Approach” GRAY FOUNDATION – Research. Innovate. Impact. Seed grant.
  • June 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Aneta Mieszawska for receiving the “A Nanoparticle-Based Approach for Hereditary BRCA-Mutated Ovarian Cancer(OvCA)” GRAY FOUNDATION – Research. Innovate. Impact. Seed grant.
  • June 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Shaneen Singh for receiving the “ Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of RNA Binding Proteins (RBPs) Mediated Regulation in Breast Cancer: In Silico focus on the Common RBP Interactors of Nucleolin and BRCA1” GRAY FOUNDATION – Research. Innovate. Impact. Seed grant.
  • April 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for publishing “Insights into Mechanisms and Promising Triple Negative Breast Cancer Therapeutic Potential for a Water-Soluble Ruthenium Compound” in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science.
  • March 2024: US Patent 17/099,273 ‘Singlet oxygen generating device for selective destruction of pathogens’  by Prof. Alexander Greer and colleagues issued on 03/05/2024.
  • February 2024: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Xinyin Jiang for publishing “Nuclear Binding Protein 2/Nesfatin-1 Affects Trophoblast Cell Fusion during Placental Development via the EGFR-PLCG1-CAMK4 Pathway” in International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
  • December 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “The Association of Untreated Mental Health Problems with Alcohol and Tobacco Use Among New York City Taxi Drivers” in the Journal of Community Health.
  • November 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for publishing “Shifting the Antibody–Drug Conjugate Paradigm: A Trastuzumab-Gold-Based Conjugate Demonstrates High Efficacy against Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer Mouse Model” in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science.
  • November 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulated Prof.  Maria Contel for publishing “Development of immunoliposomes containing cytotoxic gold payloads against HER2-positive breast cancers” in RSC Medicinal Chemistry.
  • October 2023: Congratulations to BCCC-CURE for an American Cancer Society Diversity in Cancer Research Internship IRG Supplement grant (PI: Prof. Maria Contel) titled “BCCC-CURE Summer Internships for Undergraduate Underrepresented Students”. This award will fund 6-8 full time summer internships ($5K per student) and professional development activities for undergraduate students underrepresented in cancer research (2023-2026).
  • September 2023: Congratulations to Prof. Maria Contel whose article “Platinum(IV)–Gold(I) Agents with Promising Anticancer Activity: Selected Studies in 2D and 3D Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Models” was selected as “hot” paper and cover journal in Chemistry Europe.
  • August 2023: Congratulations to Prof. Maria Contel who has been awarded an NIH/NIGMS award titled “Platinum-Gold Compounds as Potential Chemo- and Targeted Agents for Ovarian Cancer”.
  • July 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Alexander Greer for his participation as Discussion Leader in the session “Photons in Medicine and Biology” at the Gordon Research Conference on Photochemistry in Lewiston, Maine.
  • June 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Devorah Kletenik for receiving the “Investigating Accessible Software Design for Cancer Survivors with Impairments.” American Cancer Society pilot grant.
  • June 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Assistant Prof. Mara Schvarzstein for publishing “An Emerging Animal Model for Querying the Role of Whole Genome Duplication in Development, Evolution, and Disease” in Journal of Developmental Biology.
  • May 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Anjana Saxena on being accepted as a Research Scholar for 2nd Annual All of Us Evenings with Genetics (AoUEwG) Research Program’s Biomedical Faculty Summit (BRFS)
  • May 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Anjana Saxena on receiving the BCCC-CURE Seed BRCA-Related Cancers Research Grant supported by Gray Foundation for “BRCA1/BARD1-regulated and RNA-binding protein (RBP)-targeted therapeutic approach in breast carcinoma”.
  • May 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Anjana Saxena for publishing “TCGA Expression Analyses of 10 Carcinoma Types Reveal Clinically Significant Racial Differences” in Cancers.
  • April 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Florence Lui for publishing “A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of Psychosocial Interventions for Immigrant and Limited English Proficient Cancer Patients” in Psycho-oncology.
  • February 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Associate Prof. Aneta Mieszawska for publishing “Pt (II)-PLGA Hybrid in a pH-Responsive Nanoparticle System Targeting Ovarian Cancer” in Pharmaceutics.
  • January 2023: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Shaneen Singh for publishing “ In Silico Analysis of a Drosophila Parasitoid Venom Peptide Reveals Prevalence of the Cation–Polar–Cation Clip Motif in Knottin Proteins” in Pathogens.
  • December 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for publishing the mini-review “Promising heterometallic compounds as anticancer agents: Recent studies in vivo” in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
  • December 2022:  BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel for publishing “Encapsulation of Gold-Based Anticancer Agents in Protease-Degradable Peptide Nanofilaments Enhances Their Potency” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. This work was performed in collaboration with the group of Rein Ulijn (Advanced Science Research Center/Hunter College
  • December 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Alex Berkowitz, Ph.D. who successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Troponoid-Based Chemical Probes”. Alex carried out his Ph.D. studies at the CUNY Graduate Center under the supervision of Prof. Ryan Murelli (BCCC-CURE, Brooklyn College).
  • December 2022:  BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Aneta Mieszwaska for publishing “Engineering and Validation of a Peptide-Stabilized Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) Acid Nanoparticle for Targeted Delivery of a Vascular Disruptive Agent in Cancer Therapy” in Bioconjugate Chemistry. This work was featured on the journal cover.
  • November 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Peter Tolias for publishing “Design and Biological Characterization of a Series of Dual Mechanism ERK1/2 Inhibitors with a Triazolopyridinone Core” in Chemical biology & drug design.
  • November 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Yaron Marciano, Ph.D. who successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Optimized Peptide Nanomaterials as Delivery Vehicles for Hydrophobic Metal-Based Anticancer Agents”. Yaron carried out his Ph.D. studies at the CUNY Graduate Center under the supervision of Prof. Maria Contel (BCCC-CURE, Brooklyn College) and Dr. Rein Ulijn (CUNY ASRC).
  • October 2022: BCCC-CURE welcomes Ignacio León, PHD., Research Associate in CEQUINOR (CONICET-UNLP) and Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) as Fulbright Scholar. Dr. León will perform research for three months in the laboratory of Prof. Maria Contel.
  • October 2022: Prof. Jorge Matias Caviglia co-authors “Opposing roles of hepatic stellate cell subpopulations in hepatocarcinogenesis” in Nature.
  • July 2022: Congratulations to Prof. Alexander Greer  who has been awarded an NSF Single Investigator Award, entitled “Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry: Dark Processes and Toxicity Priming.”
  • June 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel, who has been elected a Vice-Chair of the 2024 Gordon Conference in Metals in Medicine.
  • May 2022: Prof. Jorge Matias Caviglia co-authors “Promotion of Cholangiocarcinoma Growth by Diverse Cancer-associated Fibroblast Subpopulations” in Cancer Cell.
  • May 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Shaneen Singh and Prof. Anjana Saxena for publishing “In silico study predicts a key role of RNA-binding domains 3 and 4 in nucleolin-miRNA interactions” in Proteins.
  • May 2022: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Sheena Philogene, our very own BCCC-CuRE Science Librarian, who successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled “Using GeoSpatial Analysis to Evaluate Relationships Between Cancer Incidence and Social Factors in Brooklyn, NY.
  • April 2022: Congratulations to Prof. Shaneen Singh who has been awarded a PSC-CUNY grant entitled “An in silico approach to decipher the mechanism of Cdc6 interactions with key interaction partners.”
  • April 2022: Congratulations to Prof. Shaneen Singh who has been awarded a Tow Research and Creativity Grant  entitled “In silico study predicts a key role of RNA-binding domains 3 and 4 in Nucleolin-miRNA interactions.
  • February 2022: BCCC congratulates Prof. Amy Ikui and Prof. Shaneen Singh for publishing “Cdc6 is sequentially regulated byPP2A-Cdc55, Cdc14, and Sic1 for origin licensing in S. cerevisiae.” in Elife.
  • November 2021: Prof. Maria Contel publishes ‘Intracellular Localization Studies of the Luminescent Analogue of an Anticancer Ruthenium Iminophosphorane with High Efficacy in a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Mouse Model’ in Inorganic Chemistry.
  • October 2021: US Patent 11,141,490  ‘Antibody Drug Conjugates Based on Gold Compounds’  by Prof. Maria Contel and Dr. Jason Lewis (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and co-workers issued on 10/12/2021.
  • October 2021: Prof. Maria Contel publishes ‘Self-Complementary Zwitterionic Peptides Direct Nanoparticle Assembly and Enable Enzymatic Selection of Endocytic Pathways’ in Adv. Mater. Prof. Contel contributed to work lead by Dr. Rein V. Ulijn from our partner institution CUNY Advanced Science Research Center.
  • August 2021: Prof. Anjana Saxena published “Fungi, host immune response, and tumorigenesis” in Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol.
  • July 2021: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Mim Lal Nakarmi, physics, (PI) and Prof. Laura Juszczak, chemistry (co-PI)  who have been awarded an NSF 18-513 Major Research Instrumentation Award for a streak camera to greatly expand the time resolution of fluorescence lifetime measurements for an existing laser-based system.
  • July 2021: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Ryan Murelli who was awarded the 2021 Graduate Center Award for Excellence in Mentoring. This award recognizes his commitment to students in the Ph.D. program in Chemistry, many of whom have carried out and continue to carry out research in his lab at Brooklyn College. You can read more about Ryan and the other winners of the award here.
  • July 2021: Prof. Maria Contel published “Investigation of the effects and mechanisms of anticancer action of a Ru(II)-arene iminophosphorane compound in triple-negative breast cancer cells” in ChemMedChem.
  • June 2021: The BCCC-CURE congratulates doctoral student Mina Poursharifi, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, “Synthesis, characterization and applications of peptide-coated nanoparticles,” today. Mina performed her doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Aneta Mieszwaska.
  • June 2021: BCCC-CURE congratulates doctoral student Marek Wlodarczyk, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, “Enhanced Platinum (II) drug delivery for anti-cancer therapy,” today. Marek did his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Aneta Mieszwaska.
  • June 2021: BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Maria Contel who, in collaboration with Professor Karen Hubbard (City College of New York), has been awarded a PSC-CUNY Enhanced grant (Cycle 52) entitled “Ruthenium-Based Small Molecules as Efficient, less Toxic, and Cost-Effective Chemotherapeutic Options Against Triple Negative Breast Cancer.”
  • June 2021: The Brooklyn College Department of Chemistry’s efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion are recognized with the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences by the American Chemical Society Committee on Minority Affairs.
  • June 2021: Prof. Brian Gibney is being honored with the 2020 E. Ann Nalley Regional Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society.
  • May 2021: BCCC-CURE congratulates Ph.D. student Sarah Belh who defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled “Photosensitization and Analytical Study on Reactive Oxygen Intermediates: Self-sorting Surface Radicals and ‘On-off’ Sensitizer Function Mechanisms.” Sarah carried out her Ph.D. studies in the group of Alexander Greer.
  • May 2021: Prof. Mariana Torrente was selected to the 2021/2022 Cohort of the Accomplishing Career Transitions Program from the American Society for Cell Biology.
  • May 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Maria Contel who, in collaboration with Prof. Karen Hubbard (from the City College of New York), has been awarded a PSC-CUNY Enhanced grant (Cycle 52) entitled “Ruthenium-Based Small Molecules as Efficient, less Toxic, and Cost-Effective Chemotherapeutic Options Against Triple Negative Breast Cancer.”
  • April 2021: Prof. Maria Contel published “Exploring the Potential of Metallodrugs as Chemotherapeutics for Triple Negative Breast Cancer” in Chemistry A European Journal.
  • April 2021: Prof. Maria Contel delivered a Keynote Lecture at the VII Latin-American Meeting on Biological Inorganic Chemistry titled “ Unconventional Metal-Based Drugs as Potential Therapeutic Treatments for Breast Cancer.
  • April  2021: Congratulations to Prof. Shaneen Singh who has been awarded a PSC-CUNY Grant entitled “Building a Nek10 interactome: A cancer-focused computational approach to map Nek10’s interacting protein partners.”
  • December 2020: Prof. Peter Lipke publishes “Through the Back Door: Unconventional Protein Secretion” in The Cell Surface.
  • November 2020: Prof. Anjana Saxena publishes “Nucleolin Regulates 14-3-3ζ mRNA and Promotes Cofilin Phosphorylation to Induce Tunneling Nanotube Formation” in The FASEB Journal. 
  • October 2020: Prof. Guillermo Gerona-Navarro publishes “An Allosteric Modulator of PRC2 Methyltransferase Activity Inhibits Renal Cancer Cell Proliferation” in European Journal of Cancer.
  • August 2020: Prof. Anjana Saxena published “Targeting Piezo1 Unleashes Innate Immunity Against Cancer and Infectious Disease” in Science Immunology.
  • July 2020: Prof. Alec Greer publishes “Fatty Acid Conjugates of Toluidine Blue O as Amphiphilic Photosensitizers: Synthesis, Solubility, Photophysics and Photochemical Properties†” in Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • May 2020: Prof. Alec Greer publishes “Adjuvants That Empower the Action of Photodynamic Therapy” in Photochemistry and Photobiology.
  • May 2020: Prof. Maria Contel publishes “Auranofin-Based Analogues Are Effective Against Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma In Vivo and Display No Significant Systemic Toxicity” in ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science.
  • April 2020: Prof. Maria Contel publishes “SEC hyphenated to a multielement-specific detector unravels the degradation pathway of a bimetallic anticancer complex in human plasma” in the Journal of Chromatography B.
  • March 2020: Prof. Alec Greer publishes “In Vivo Tissue Evaluation Reveals Improvements in Explicit PDT Dosimetry” in Photochemistry and Photobiology.
  • March 2020: Prof. Ryan Murelli publishes“In Silico Design and Molecular Basis for the Selectivity of Olinone toward the First over the Second Bromodomain of BRD4” in Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
  • March 2020: The BCCC-CURE congratulates Prof. Guillermo Gerona-Navarro, who has received a $1.57M award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project “Allosteric Modulators of Polycomb Repressive 2 Gene Repression as Potential Therapeutics for the Development of Novel Epigenetic Cancer Therapies.” Part of the projects will be performed in collaboration with Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Professor Ari Melnick.)
  • March 2020: Prof. Andres Durantini, a Fulbright Scholar in the Greer laboratory from Sept. 2019 – Nov. 2019, from CONICET and the Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina, collaborated in publishing “Superhydrophobic Surfaces as a Source of Airborne Singlet Oxygen Through Free Space for Photodynamic Therapy” in ACS Appl. Bio Mater.
  • March 2020: Assistant Prof. Emilio Gallicchio receives the American Chemical Society COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
  • January 2020: Prof. Alec Greer in collaboration with Prof. Sherri McFarland published  “Synthesis and Characterization of Ru(II) Complexes with π-Expansive Imidazophen Ligands for the Photokilling of Human Melanoma Cells” in Photochem. Photobiol.