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Welcome to the Hof group pages at the University of Victoria. We do research at the intersection of medicinal and supramolecular chemistry. Read more about our projects on the research pages.

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contact information

Fraser Hof, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, PO Box 3065, Victoria, BC, V8W 3V6, Canada
tel 1 250 721 7193; fax 1 250 721 7147; email fhof@uvic.ca; office Elliott 233c

research lab SCI B216, 1 250 853 3647; student office SCI B216a, 1 250 853 3644


news and events
oct 2012
Kevin gets renewed scholarship support from the Prostate Cancer Foundation of BC. Taylor and Marie are named JCURA scholars... woot.
Soccer season underway - Fraser, Derek, Benny, and Sara put on the Chem United colours.

sep 2012
The group's research on chemical tools for epigenetics appears in Canadian Chemical News. Kinda neat.
Benny, Marie-Claude, Taylor, and Derek join up as new members.
july 2012
Graham and Sara's project funding from Genome BC comes on line.
Papers in JACS, Chemical Science, and Org. Biomol Chem. hit the presses
june 2012
Sam defends his M.Sc., gets into Medical School, and has his JACS paper accepted all in one month. Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
apr 2012
Cindy defends her Ph.D. - first for the Hof group. Congrats!
Lance, Trevor, Emma, Kevin A. (joint with Berg), Truman, Marie, and James (joint Paci) all join the group.
feb 2012
Kevin, Manny, & Florent have their paper on new, highly selective receptors accepted in Org. Lett. Amanda and Subrata have their paper on new anion binders accepted in Supramol. Chem.
Sam delivers a 509 seminar worthy of a celebratory trip to Disneyland!
jan 2012
Amanda, Sam, and Kevin all have abstracts accepted to be given as oral presentations at the San Diego ACS meeting.
Welcome Graham, Sarah, Melanie, James, and Sara to the group!
dec 2011
Cindy's paper on host scaffolds is accepted into Beil. J. Org. Chem. Sam and Kevin's iPhones are annoying. Fraser is jealous. Kevin redeems himself by winning a fellowship from the Ride to Live.
oct 2011
Becca and Tom have their work accepted in Chem. Commun. First-author paper for an undergrad - congrats!
Sam orders his iPhone. Oh the humanity.
sep 2011
Manny wins a Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award.
The group returns from our SuMo symposium in Oregon - good science, and even better BBQ. Deal with it.
aug 2011
Becca returns from her all expenses paid trip to the very cool Pacific NW Undergrad Research Symposium  wth the "Best Participant" award.
Keri gets the cover of New J. Chem. (pdf) for her work done in collaboration with the McIndoe group.
july 2011
Becca defends her honour's thesis. Congrats!
Fraser takes up his Canada Research Chair.
A major grant from Prostate Cancer Canada is funded.
june 2011
Amanda wins a seminar award at the CSC!
The group gets some good press from the Saanich News and the Victoria Times Colonist (pdf).
may 2011
Cindy delivers an excellent departmental 509 seminar on her research. Welcome to the group Manny and Chakri!
apr 2011
Amanda's, Cindy's, Kevin's, and Tom's submissions are all accepted as oral presentations at the upcoming CSC in Montreal. Good times.
feb 2011
Tom and Becca have their anion binding paper accepted in J. Org. Chem.
Volcano conference road trip!
nov 2010
Kevin receives funding for his Ph.D. research from the WestCoast Ride to Live - Prostate Cancer Research Grants program.
oct 2010
Kevin and Tom both successfully transfer to the Ph.D. program and win Graduate Awards - Congrats!
Tom has a paper published in Biochemistry, and Cory gets the cover of Can J. Chem.
aug 2010
Cindy is away for an internship doing Sanofi-Aventis contract work in Germany. Sam joins up for grad studies.
may 2010
New recruits! Rebecca, Manuel, Graham sign up. Fraser gets a CIHR New Investigator Award, which is almost as cool as Kevin and Brendan's appearance in Bachem Peptalk.
mar 2010
Volcano conference road trip!
Fraser lands an Ichikizaki award from the CSC.
nov 2009
Congrats to Cory on landing a professorship at UFV!
Cory, Catherine, Kevin, and Brandin see their work accepted in ChemBioChem.