The Burns Research Group received its first shipment of ~0.6 mCi of At-211 on October 12, 2022! A huge THANK YOU to our collaborators at The Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute who successfully loaded, packaged, and shipped us a 3-octanone extraction chromatography cartridge with 8.5 mCi of At-211!
Welcome to the Burns Research Group Ataur! Mr. Ataur Rahman is a first year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry pursuing his Ph.D.
Congratulation to Michael Jones who participated in the HIPPO: Horizon‐broadening Isotope Production Pipeline Opportunities collaboration end of summer week-long visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The visit spanned the week of July 25, 2022 and included networking session, guest lectures from prominent US Department of Energy scientist, tours of unique facilities housed at LANL, and culminated in a poster session showcasing the student’s summer research. Great work Michael!
Congratulation to Maddison Gibson who participated in the UAB Regional Initiative to Promote Undergraduate Participation in Experimental and Computational Materials Research program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The program culminated Ms. Gibson presenting her work in both an oral session for the UAB REU program and a poster session at the UAB Summer 2022 Research Expo. Great work Maddison!
Congratulations to the entire At-211 Team on the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Complexation of astatine(III) with ketones: Roles of NO3– counterion and exploration of possible binding modes” in Inorganic Chemistry!
The Burns Research Lab welcomes Ms. Maddison Gibson as a summer researcher. Maddison is a participant in the UAB Regional Initiative to Promote Undergraduate Participation in Experimental and Computational Materials Research program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
Ms. Gibson is a rising senior at Savannah State University, working towards a degree in Forensic Science. The UAB REU program runs for 10-weeks from the last week in May till the end of July and supports 14 undergraduates from around the country to come to UAB and conduct cutting-edge research across many different disciplines.
The DOE Office of Science recently published a highlight, “Cancer Countermeasures on a Column”, about some of our recent findings!
Congratulations to Evgeny Tereshatov and the entire At-211 Team on the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Compact automated apparatus for rapid astatine recovery from nitric acid media: design, application, and impurity characterization” in Chemical Engineering Journal!
Congratulation to Michael Jones for being selected to the inaugural undergraduate class of the HIPPO: Horizon‐broadening Isotope Production Pipeline Opportunities collaboration! Michael is a Junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham majoring in Chemistry. Over the next year, he will be conducting research in the Burns Research Laboratory investigating the utility of using VO2+ as a chemical analog for AtO+, along with exploring the separation chemistry of V for the purification of 48V.
