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May 12, 2020Martin Wühr to receive funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund
Clifford Brangwynne, professor of chemical and biological engineering; Martin Wühr, assistant professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute; and Tom Muir, Professor of Chemistry, have received funding to explore the roles of protein interactions in health and disease.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
May 12, 2020Essential Work: Gordon Gray, Princeton’s fly food chef
Millions of tiny creatures — and the scientific discoveries that they make possible — depend on one of the essential workers reporting to campus during the pandemic. Gordon Gray is “chef de cuisine” at Princeton’s fly kitchen.Department Announcement
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March 3, 2020MOL majors were among students who traveled to Silicon Valley during winter break to pitch potential new biotech products based on University technologyDepartment Announcement -
February 27, 2020Princeton, Rutgers and NJIT have received a CTSA grant from the NIH to speed translation of research into innovations that can lead to improvements in patient and public health. Dan Notterman is the lead PI for Princeton.Department Announcement -
February 18, 2020Alexei Korrenykh's research has been awarded funding from the University’s Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund, which aims to speed the development of innovative projects into real-world applications.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 18, 2020Kang lab researchers are exploring ways to extend the benefits of immunotherapy to more cancer types, including breast tumor cells. Princeton University's IP Accelarator Funding will help support this research.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 18, 2020With funding from the IP Accelerator Fund, molecules that show activity against HBV will be further tested in cell culture and animal models developed by the Ploss group.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 13, 2020Princeton researchers, including Martin Wühr, have devised a new mathematical technique to describe the behavior of many cellular enzymes. The approach will help researchers determine how genetic mutations change the behavior of these enzymes to cause a range of human diseases, including cancer.Research -
February 7, 2020Bonnie Bassler will receive the 2020 Gruber Genetics Prize for her pioneering work on how bacteria communicate with each other.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 7, 2020Martin Jonikas, assistant professor of molecular biologyhas received a 2020 Vilcek Foundation Prize, which recognize the career achievements and creative promise of foreign-born innovators in the sciences, arts and humanities.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 7, 2020Combining light and a protein linked to cancer, researchers at Princeton University have created a biological switch to conduct an unprecedented exploration of cellular development in the embryo.Research -
February 7, 2020The microbial community populating the human body plays an important role in health and disease, but with few exceptions, how individual microbial species affect health and disease states remains poorly understood. A new study by Princeton researcher Mohamed Abou Donia and his colleagues, appearing in the Dec. 13 issue of the journal Science, gives scientists new tools to explore and understand the human microbiome.Research -
January 30, 2020Bonnie Bassler has been awarded the Genetics Society of America medal in recognition of her groundbreaking studies of bacterial chemical communication.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
January 16, 2020A newly developed system for turning on the therapeutic activity of genes could benefit the treatment of a broad range of genetic diseases.Research -
January 15, 2020Researchers in the Petry Lab have successfully recreated a key process involved in cell division in a test tube, uncovering the vital role played by a protein that is elevated in over 25% of all cancers.Research -
January 13, 2020Professor Dan Notterman and students in MOL 460 Diseases in Children visiting the States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing exhibit at the University Art Museum through February 2Department Announcement -
December 31, 2019Building on his lab’s expertise in human liver pathogens, Alexander Ploss and his team have pioneered new screening platforms and new methods to evaluate therapeutic candidates.Research