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Chao Dong

Assistant Professor

Chemistry Program

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Chemistry

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ST 1246

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Education

PI, NSF IRES grant, $299,965, 2023-2026.
STARs (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) grant, $237,000. UT Systems, 2019-2022.
Computational Allocations, 556,00SUs, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) 2019-

Design and synthesis of xanthine oxidase inhibitor for gout treatment (big toe).
Enzyme kinetic studies of inhibition behavior
Computational (QM and MM) investigation of structure-property relationship of prepared materials (compounds) such as in the application of biomedicine, water treatment, energy conversion

Sun, Z.Y.; Dong, C; Hu, H.Y.; Zhou, J. S.; Huang, Z. D.; Li, C. “Tough Anti-swelling Supramolecular Conductive Hydrogel for Amphibious Motion Sensors”. Small, 2023, 2303612.
Maghsoud, Y; Dong, C; Cisneros, G. A. “Computational insights into the Inhibition Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidoreductase by Oxipurinol”, J. Chemical Information and Modeling, 2023, 63, 13, 4190.
Maghsoud, Y; Dong, C; Cisneros, G. A. “Computational Characterization of the Inhibition Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidoreductase by Topiroxostat”, ACS Catalysis. 2023, 13, 6023.
Haskell, D.; Heo, J.; Park, J.; Dong, C. “Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of Groundwater Quality Parameters for Ogallala Aquifer in the Southern High Plains Region, USA”. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2022, 19, 8453.
Dong, C; Montes, M.; Al-Sawai, W. M. “Xanthine oxidoreductase inhibition: a review of computational aspect”. Journal of Theoretical Computational Chemistry. 2020, 19, 2040008.

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at UTPB 2023-
Director of Biomedical Research Camp for high school students at UTPB 2021, 2022 summer
General Education Oversight Committee, UTPB 2021-2023
Faculty advisor for chemistry major student 2021-
Co-advisor of ACS Student Chapter at UTPB 2019-
Committee member of graduate thesis at UTPB 2020-
Judge of the Permian Basin Science and Engineering Fair 2019/2021/2023
Chemistry demos in elementary school/National Chemistry Week 019-

Editor Board, Frontiers in Chemistry, sections Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, 2023
Guest Editor of Special Issue “Advanced Tools and Methods of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry: How Are They Developed and Used?’, Molecules, 2023
Peer reviewer of MDPI series of journals (Molecules, Nutrient, Sustainability, Water, Cells, Process, and international J of Molecular Science) 2022-
Peer reviewer of SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research; Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, sections Biological Modeling and Simulation 2021