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Timothy Liwosz, lecturer in the Chemistry Department at Buffalo State, will present "Copper-Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization" at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Science Building 272. This seminar series is sponsored by the Faculty-Student Association. An abstract of his talk appears below.

Abstract
This talk will review recent studies in collaborations with Roswell Park Cancer Institute on the role of surface chemical analysis to determine the spatial distribution of pharmaceuticals in tissue samples and in polymer membranes for drug delivery. A review of the methodology of the measurements, background into tissue preparation in cancer studies, and design of polymer membranes will be followed by results from multiple studies that illustrate the role of modern chemical analysis in progress in cancer treatment and wound healing. Interdisciplinary work requires collaboration from very disparate disciplines, and the role of student learning in chemistry and biology is examined as part of these studies.