UW-Madison chemist receives Sloan Fellowship

Qiang Cui, an assistant professor of chemistry at UW–Madison, is one of 116 researchers to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship – a program that honors outstanding young scientists and economists in the United States and Canada.

A UW–Madison faculty member since 2001, Cui’s research takes place at the intersection between chemistry and biology, where complex chemical events occur inside biological molecules, such as proteins. He is developing and applying state-of-the-art theoretical and computational methods to study the mechanisms underlying essential biological processes, such as energy transduction in molecular motors and dioxygen activation by flavoenzymes. As a fellow, Cui will receive an unrestricted grant of $40,000 for a two-year period to pursue his research goals.

The Sloan Research Fellowship program, one of the oldest of its kind, started in 1955 as a way to promote research among some of the country’s best young scientists, who are at pivotal points in their career and who may have a hard time obtaining grants to fund their projects. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than $103 million to support more than 3,900 young researchers, 28 of whom later received Nobel Prizes.