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May 11, 2021MD/PhD Student Tess Kichuk Wins Princeton Research Day Prize
Tess Kichuk, a Molecular Biology student in the Avalos lab, won the Graduate Student Impact Award.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
May 11, 2021Sabine Petry Awarded Support from Schmidt Transformative Tech Fund
Petry's is among three projects, led by faculty teams from across the sciences and engineering, that aim to pioneer new discoveries with the potential to transform entire fields of inquiry and propel innovation. The projects were selected following a competitive application process.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 26, 2015From institutions across the Northeast, researchers and science instructors gathered at Princeton University the week of June 14 to explore techniques designed to better engage science students and attract students who are apprehensive about entering a laboratory.Department Announcement
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June 24, 2015The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, which supports early stage investigators engaged in biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease, has named Ileana Cristea as a 2015 Mallinckrodt Scholar.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 19, 2015Thomas J. Pohl, a postdoctoral fellow in the Zakian lab, was awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “The Role of G-Quadruplex Sequences in Ribosomal DNA Transcription and Ribosome Biogenesis or Function”.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 19, 2015Phong Lan Thao Tran, a postdoctoral fellow in the Zakian lab, was awarded the 2015 NJ Commission on Cancer Research Scholar Award for his project “Identifying Proteins that Promote Replication Fork Progression at Protein-DNA Complexes”.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 15, 2015Alexander Ploss, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, was selected to receive a 2015 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for his excellence in research in medical microbiology and infectious disease.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 10, 2015Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University's Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, was named a 2015 Shaw Laureate in life science and medicine June 1.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 3, 2015Frederick Hughson, Professor of Molecular Biology, received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at commencement yesterday. Hughson specializes in structural cell biology with a particular focus in intracellular transportation and quorum sensing of bacteria.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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May 29, 2015John Storey, the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has been awarded the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award by the American Public Health Association (APHA).Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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May 19, 2015Adel Mahmoud, Professor in Molecular Biology and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University was recognized with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Case Western Reserve University on Sunday, May 17, 2015.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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May 14, 2015Karla Frietze, a fourth year graduate student in the Boulanger lab, was awarded the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research fellowship. This is the first graduate fellowship sponsored by the NJCBIR for our Department, and the first ever for Princeton University.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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April 29, 2015Justin Silpe was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG / DoD) fellowship to support his interest in studying biofilms from a combined biological, materials science, and engineering perspective.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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April 29, 2015Raymundo Alfaro-Aco and Eric Glynn received the NSF Graduate Award for their research in the Petry Lab.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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March 21, 2015A new study from Princeton University researchers sheds light on the handing over of genetic control from mother to offspring early in development. Learning how organisms manage this transition could help researchers understand larger questions about how embryos regulate cell division and differentiation into new types of cells.Research
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February 24, 2015Two projects in the Department of Molecular Biology have been awarded support through Princeton University's Dean for Research innovation funds.Research
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January 28, 2015A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory in the worm as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging.Grants, Fellowships and Awards