Marquette chemistry professor receives NSF CAREER grant to make novel radiolabeled compounds with applications in new drug development

MILWAUKEE — Dr. Joseph Clark, assistant professor of chemistry in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty. The $650,000 grant will be used to develop new reactions for precision labeling of small molecules, which can allow scientists to track the fate of a drug molecule in the body. The reactions being studied will enable a specific quantity of tritium and/or deuterium to be placed at an exact location of a small molecule. The research has implications in new…