News

2024

• 12.29.24 - Our collaborative work with Nicola Santoro detailing rare MC4R receptor variants is published in the International Journal of Obesity!

• 12.03.24 - After 43 years of service to the University, Mary official retires! Congratulations Mary!

• 10.30.24 - The lab publishes a C-terminal truncation study of ACTH in the International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics for the special collection Celebrating Professor George Barany's Half Century in Science!

• 08.26.24 - Nick's paper on recommended tool compounds for the melanocortin receptors is published in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science!

• 07.12.24 - Congratulations An on passing your written exam!

• 06.17.24 - Kyle joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 05.13.24 - Nick successful defends his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Weirath!

• 05.06.24 - The Haskell-Luevano lab welcomes Erika to the lab!

• 04.28.24 - Nick gives a talk at the 2024 MIKIW conference!

• 04.27.24 - Linh, Ritu, and An present posters at the 2024 MIKIW conference!

• 04.25.24 - Nick presents his work at the University of Minnesota's Chemical Biology Colloquium!

• 04.15.24 - Welcome graduate rotation student Kyle!

• 04.02.24 - Our report regarding the incorporation of extracyclic Arg residues into a melanocortin macrocyclic agonist ligand is published in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science!

• 03.22.24 - The Haskell-Luevano lab bids farewell to Kristen, wishing her the best returning to 717!

• 01.23.24 - Ritu presents published works on designing peptide-drug conjugate ligands of kappa opioid receptor for the treatment of pain with fewer adverse effects to the medicinal chemistry department!

• 01.04.24 - An joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 01.03.24 - The Haskell-Luevano lab welcomes the new year with a spirited 4 v 4 (and 1 semi-aligned human bludger) Whirlyball tournament! No major injuries were reported!

2023

• 10.27.23 - The Haskell-Luevano lab bids farewell to postdoc Ricardo! Best of luck in his new industrial medicinal chemistry position!

• 10.09.23 - Welcome graduate rotation students Nusha and Omar!

• 08.25.23 - Congratulations Ritu on passing your written exam!

• 08.18.23 - An finishes his rotation in the Haskell-Luevano lab by turning in 16 synthesized peptides! Thanks An!

• 08.13.23 - Nick presents his work at the 2023 Fall Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society!

• 07.07.23 - The Haskell-Luevano lab bids farewell to Courtney, wishing her the best in her new industry analytical chemistry position!

• 06.14.23 - Our collaborative manuscript with the Torrey Pines Institute/Florida International University detailing a parallel structure-activity relationship study was accepted into the International Journal of Molecular Sciences!

• 06.12.23 - Our publication regarding pan-melanocortin antagonists is published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry!

• 06.12.23 - Welcome graduate rotation student An!

• 06.01.23 - Linh presents her work at the 22nd annual Chemistry Graduate Student Research Symposium for third year chemistry graduate students!

• 05.29.23 - Ricardo and Mark leave MN for cooler FL to work with collaborators at FIU - after filling hundreds of teabags, they are ready for careers at Lipton, Tazo, Bigelow, or other companies!

• 05.17.23 - Congratulations to Dr. Bouchard on successfully defending his thesis!

• 05.03.23 - The Haskell-Luevano lab bids farewell to Lauren, who contributed 46 peptides to research projects in her time in the lab! Best of luck in dental school!

• 04.30.23 - Jake wins the 2023 MIKIW award for best talk! Congratulations Jake!

• 04.30.23 - Nick and Linh present posters at the 2023 MIKIW Conference!

• 04.29.23 - Ricardo presents a poster at the 2023 MIKIW Conference!

• 04.29.23 - Jake gives a talk a the 2023 MIKIW Conference!

• 04.28.23 - Welcome medicinal chemists from Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Wisconsin to the 60th annual MIKIW conference! 

• 03.03.23 - Welcome prospective Medicinal Chemistry graduate students - we hope you enjoy your visit!

• 01.17.23 - Ritu joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 01.06.23 - Despite missing Mary, Katie, and Carrie, the remaining elite eight of the lab successfully completed Puzzle Works "The Hospital" with over 6 minutes to spare! Luckily, analog clocks did not impede the effort!

2022

• 11.02.2022 - Linh, Ricardo, and Nick present posters at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference!

• 11.01.2022 - Carrie gives a talk at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference!

• 10.31.2022 - Jake and Mark present posters at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference!

• 08.15.2022 - Kristen joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 07.29.2022 - Our publication with indoylated amino acids with collaborator Armin Geyer is accepted at ACS Omega!

• 06.20.2022 - Raphael joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 04.29.2022 - Linh, Nick, Jake, and Ricardo present posters at the 2022 MIKIW Conference!

• 03.08.2022 - Linh, Nick, Jake, Ricardo, Zoe, Courtney, and Mark meet with our collaborators at FIU, and enjoy homemade jambalaya from Nick!

• 03.05.2022 - Fearless leader Carrie breaks her ankle when attempting to traverse the harsh and dangerous MN winter landscape at the University!

2021

• 11.01.2021 - Ricardo joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 09.15.2021 - The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry publishes our work with our collaborators at the Torrey Pines Institute (now part of Florida International University)!

• 05.14.2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Zoe Koerperich for defending her Ph.D. Thesis!

• 04.23.2021 - Zoe gives a talk at the MIKIW conference in Madison WI!

• 04.21.2021 - The Cone lab publishes interesting results on the role of the MC3R in mice, thanking CHL for the initial supply of a compound in the acknowledgments of the paper - glad to help, RC!

• 04.16.2021 - Zoe gives a talk at the CBIG UMN seminar!

• 03.31.2021 - Another collaborative publication with the Torrey Pines Institute published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry!

• 03.30.2021 - Zoe gives a talk at the Medicinal Chemistry seminar!

• 03.03.2021 - An international collaborative review of the melanocortin-4 receptor is published in Molecular Metabolism!

• 02.09.2021 - Jake joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 01.11.2021 - Our paper with AGRP macrocycylic peptides is accepted at ACS Chemical Neuroscience!

2020

• 12.08.2020 - Linh joins the Haskell-Luevano lab!

• 12.08.2020 - Our MC3R agonist tetrapeptide work, featuring work by undergraduate Romessa Shaikh, is accepted at ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters!

• 11.19.2020 - Carrie and Katie publish with collaborator Zalfa Abdel-Malek in The Journal of Investigative Dermatology!

2019

• 06.17.2019 - Shipping compounds to the Cone lab at the University of Michigan to begin an exciting collaborative effort investigating the in vivo pharmacological profile of the MC3R!