Hanadi Sleiman, C.J. Li awarded Killam Research Fellowships
A better way to build DNA scaffolds
Prof. Li’s project aims to find sustainable raw materials for chemical products. As fossil resources dwindle, cheap and abundant biomass waste from agriculture, forest, and seafood industries could potentially provide alternative feedstocks for chemical products. The main obstacle is the lack of broadly applicable and efficient chemical tools to transform highly functionalized biomass-based molecules directly and selectively. During his two-year fellowship, Prof. Li will seek to develop biomass-based feedstocks as widely applicable substitutes for conventional organometallic reagents.
See also: Another step forward for green chemistry
The annual Killam Prizes and Fellowships are distributed by the Canada Council for the Arts. For this year’s full list of recipients, visit: http://killamprogram.canadacouncil.ca