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February 11, 2019Princeton-Rutgers M.D.-Ph.D. program trains future physicians in scientific research
Fifteen graduate students at Princeton are training to be doctors through a joint program between Princeton University and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.Department Announcement -
February 6, 2019Princeton IP accelerator funding awarded to Professor Alexander Ploss for yellow fever research
Alexander Ploss and his team will receive funding to explore new ways to treat yellow fever using mice with humanized immune systems.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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May 18, 2017Jennifer Lee won the Gold Award for Best Poster at Princeton Research Day for her poster on her senior thesis project in the Toettcher Lab titled "Using Optogenetics to Investigate How Cells Make Decisions."Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
May 15, 2017A new study in the Petry lab has revealed insights into how new microtubules branch from the sides of existing ones.Research -
May 11, 2017Shirley M. Tilghman is teaching a new freshman seminar this semester called "What makes a great experiment?"Department Announcement -
May 9, 2017Former Molecular Biology graduate student and member of the Zakian lab Wai-Hong Tham has been named an International Research Scholar by HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,who sponsor this award for early-career scientists poised to advance biomedical research across the globe.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 4, 2017Researchers in the Gavis lab at Princeton University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have discovered how a fruit fly protein binds and regulates two different types of RNA target sequence. The study may help explain how various RNA-binding proteins, many of which are implicated in cancer and neurodegenerative disease, perform so many different functions in the cell.Research -
March 14, 2017Researchers from Princeton University‘s Department of Molecular Biology have developed a new method that can precisely track the replication of yellow fever virus in individual host immune cells. The technique could aid the development of new vaccines against a range of viruses, including Dengue and Zika.Research -
March 13, 2017Lynn Enquist, Jim Sturm and Naveen Verma are recipients of a Fall Innovation Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the J. Blair Pyne Fund. The award is for $171,000 for their proposal to develop a "three dimensional electronic neural interface."Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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March 3, 2017Thomas Bartlett, a graduate student in the Gitai lab, has been selected for a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 22, 2017Jared Toettcher, assistant professor of Molecular Biology, is part of a team that was selected to receive support from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology FundGrants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 6, 2017The Shvartsman, Burdine and Schüpbach labs collaborated on a study that provides new insights into RASopathies, genetic disorders that affect approximately one child out of 1,000.Research -
February 2, 2017A study in the Ploss lab was selected by the editors of Virology for the Highlights section of their website's blog. The article descibes the development of humanized mice for the study of hepatitis B.Research -
February 1, 2017Researchers at Princeton found that the nucleolus, a cellular organelle involved in RNA synthesis, assembles in part through the passive process of phase separation – the same type of process that causes oil to separate from water.Research -
January 25, 2017A number of donors and pharmaceutical companies have raised $500 million to support a partnership aimed at controlling future global epidemics.Research -
January 17, 2017The Ploss lab reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when the hepatitis E virus infects a cell, it makes proteins that poke holes in the cell's membrane to allow newly made virus particles to escape and spread.Research -
January 12, 2017Princeton University researchers have discovered that the bacteria behind the life-threatening disease cholera initiates infection by coordinating a wave of mass shapeshifting that allows them to more effectively penetrate their victims' intestines.Research