
Status Part-time Faculty
Home Department of Chemistry
Phone 244-8726
Email mdburke@illinois.edu
Address 3257 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Martin Burke is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He led the SHIELD Team at Illinois, and is also a professor in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
Education
B.A., chemistry, John Hopkins University, 1998
Ph.D., chemistry, Harvard University, 2003
M.D., health sciences and technology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
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Honors
2022: Elected, National Academy of Medicine
2022: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2021: Presidential Medallion, University of Illinois
2021: Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumnus Award
2021: LAS Impact Award, UIUC
2021: Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation
2019: iCON Award
2019: Mukaiyama Award, Japan
2017: American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Award for Graduate Education
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Research
Research interests:
Synthesis
study of small molecules with protein-like functions
Research in the Burke group focuses on the synthesis and study of small molecules with the capacity to perform protein-like functions. Ultimately, we envision such compounds serving as substitutes for missing or dysfunctional proteins, thereby operating as prostheses on the molecular scale. To enable these studies, we seek to develop new strategies and methods that make the process of complex small molecule synthesis as simple, efficient, and flexible as possible. We further aim to harness the power of this chemistry to illuminate the underpinnings of higher-order small molecule function in atomistic detail. Collectively, these efforts seek to make possible the development of molecular prosthetics as a general strategy for the understanding and betterment of human health.
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2022
- Burke elected to National Academy of Medicine
- Molecule Maker Lab and AI join forces to generalize automated chemistry
- Beckman researchers announced as 2022 Cancer Center at Illinois research grant recipients
- Beckman researchers program a model for pandemic management
- Automated synthesis enables discovery of unexpected charge transport behavior in organic molecules
- Science: Burke and colleagues revolutionize drug discovery with automated 3D molecule assembly
- Burke, Hauber, Irudayaraj named 2021 AAAS Fellows
2021
2020