The Wilson Research Group

Radioactive & non-radioactive metal complexes in medicine

Wilson Group @ the Inorganic Groups Barbecue – uCSB 2024

Welcome to the Wilson Group!

We explore the utility of inorganic complexes for use in medicine. Our research spans the fields of inorganic chemistry, radiochemistry, and cell biology. See our research and publications to learn more!

News & Events

  • 08/06/2024 UCSB’s The Current publishes a piece on Yangyang and Justin’s recent paper on REE separations. Check it out!
  • 07/01/2024 The Wilson group officially moves to UCSB!
  • 05/15/2024 Nick passes his B-exam. Congratulations Dr. Bigham!
  • 05/10/2024 The lab receives the departmental safety award.
  • 04/25/2024 Ethan wins an outstanding poster award at the Cornell x Ithaca College Undergraduate Poster Symposium. Congratulations Ethan!
  • 10/18/2023 Jacy officially joins the Wilson Group! Welcome first year!
  • 10/10/2023 Yangyang returns to the group as a postdoc! Welcome back Dr. Gao!
  • 09/28/2023 Brian joins the group as a visiting scholar from the City University in Hong Kong!
  • 06/20/2023 Haipei and Kevin pass their A Exams! Congratulations!
  • 06/15/2023 Piyusha passes her A Exam! Congratulations Piyusha!
  • 06/15/2023 Daria joins the group for her Master’s Degree.
  • 06/12/2023 Ethan joins the lab as a summer CHAMPS undergraduate research fellow.
  • 06/01/2023 Maggie joins the lab as a summer research intern.
  • 05/17/2023 Tracky passes his B-exam. Congratulations Dr. Huang!
  • 08/24/2022 Thora joins the Wilson Group as an undergraduate researcher!
  • 07/01/2022 Todd joins the Wilson Group as a postdoctoral fellow!
  • 06/30/2022 Nick is awarded the GRC Outstanding Poster Award!
  • 06/15/2022 Aohan is newly minted Dr. Hu!
  • 06/07/2022 Mary joins the Wilson Group as a CHAMPS undergraduate research fellow!
  • 06/01/2022 Valerie joins the Wilson Group for a summer research internship!
  • 06/01/2022 Thines joins the Wilson Group as a new postdoctoral fellow!
  • 11/01/2021 Haipei, Kevin, and Piyusha join the Wilson Group. Welcome!
  • 09/24/2021 Congratulations to Justin for winning an ACS 2022 national award, “Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator”! Thanks to all former and present lab members who have been contributing!
  • 08/02/2021 Congratulations to Josh for passing the B-exam and becoming the fifth doctor of the Wilson Group!
  • 06/25/2021 Congratulations to Nick for passing the A-exam and earning his Master’s degree!
  • 01/01/2021 We are now on Twitter!!! Check out our cool logo and follow us @JWilsonLab
  • 11/01/2020 Megan joins the Wilson Group. Welcome!
  • 08/27/2020 Congratulations to Tracky for passing his A-exam and earning the Master’s degree!
  • 5/20/20 Paden, Sierra, and Charlene defend their theses and pass their B-exams. Congratulations to our new doctors of Wilson Group!
  • 9/12/19 Congratulations to Sierra for being awarded an ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award to attend the National ACS Meeting in San Diego, CA!
  • 7/8/2019 Welcome new first year graduate students! Our group meeting schedule was posted under the “Research” tab and you are all welcome to join us!
  • 7/1/2019 Congratulations to Aohan and Jesse for passing their A-exams and earning their Master’s degrees!
  • 6/8/2019 Congratulations to David for winning the outstanding poster award at the Western New York Inorganic Symposium!
  • 1/18/2019 Congratulations to Josh for winning the best poster award at the 8th Annual Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium!
  • 11/1/2018 Tracky joins the group. Welcome!
  • 9/19/2018 Congratulations to Joshua for the paper just published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!
  • 8/31/2018 William passes his A-exam to get his Master’s Degree, and is departing the group. Good luck to him in the future!
  • 7/18/2018 Congrats to Charlene, Sierra, and Nikki for their papers in Dalton Trans. and Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals!
  • 5/24/2018 Joshua passes his A-exam to get his Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering. Congratulations!
  • 5/8/2018 Charlene wins the Cornell Covestro Teaching award for excellence in teaching! Congratulations to her!
  • 1/18/2018 Our Post”dog”toral researcher Cessna has his first paper published!
  • 12/12/2017 Sarah defends her thesis, and becomes the first Ph.D. Graduate of the Wilson Group. Congratulations!
  • 11/7/2017 Aohan and Jesse join the group. Welcome!
  • 10/16/2017 Congratulations to Nikki, Sarah and Julie for their papers just published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed and Dalton Trans!
  • 8/17/2017 Charlene passes her A-exam to earn her Masters Degree, congratulations!
  • 7/10/2017 Welcome new first year graduate students!
  • 7/5/2017 We welcome our summer students for 2017, as Santiago, Valencia, and Charles come to us from near and far for some experience in hands on inorganic chemistry
  • 6/26/2017 Paden passes his A-Exam to get his Masters Degree, congratulations!
  • 6/12/2017 Kevin and Sierra pass their exams and receive their Masters Degrees, congrats!
  • 5/16/2017 The group publishes its second paper! Congrats to Paden and Hendryck for their paper in Inorganic Chem!
  • 2/28/2017 The group has published its first paper at Cornell! Congratulations and great work to Sarah as she publishes in Inorganic Chem!
  • 1/6/2017 We extend our warmest welcomes to Charlene as she joins the group!
  • 12/16/2016 Joshua and William join the group!
  • 10/7/2016 The group says goodbye to our visiting student Katia. Thank you for all your great lab work and contributions. Safe travels back to Spain!
  • 7/7/2016 Welcome Katia Samper, who comes to us from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona as a summer graduate student!
  • 7/1/2016 Welcome new first year graduate students!
  • 6/18/2016 Paden is awarded a CBI Training Grant! Congratulations to Paden and thanks to the CBI training program!
  • 4/28/2016 The lab receives funding from the CTSC Pilot Award!
  • 4/28/2016 Hendryck receives the Frank L. and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship to carry out research in the lab this summer! Congrats Hendryck!
  • 4/17/2016 Sarah wins the IPMI Republic Metals Richard Rubin Memorial Award! She will attend the international IPMI conference in June and present her research! Congratulations Sarah!
  • 11/17/2015 Paden, Sierra, and Kevin join the group!

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