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October 19, 2021NJ ACTS Translational Science fellowships awarded to Esmat Hegazi and Rebecca Kim-Yip
MOL graduate student Esmat Hegazi (Muir lab) and postdoctoral researcher Rebecca Kim-Yip (Toettcher and Posfai labs) are the latest department members to become NJ ACTS TL1 Fellows. They will receive a year of stipend and tuition support in this translational science training program.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
October 5, 2021Three MOL Faculty win High Risk - High Reward NIH Research Awards
Professors Mohamed Abou Donia, Zemer Gitai and Coleen Murphy (joint with Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics) are 2021 recipients of the NIH's High-Risk High-Reward research grants. Donia and Gitai received a Transformative Research Award, and Murphy received both a Pioneer Award and a Transformative Research Award.Research
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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 -
December 30, 2019Professor Nieng Yan and colleagues have developed a new method to make monolayer graphene grids for cryo-EM sample preparation.Research -
December 10, 2019Rutgers, Princeton and the NJ Institute of Technology jointly received a $33M award from the NIH to encourage translational science. MOL Professor Dan Notterman is the lead for Princeton. Photo: Melvin Evans/Rutgers UniversityResearch -
December 5, 2019The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Aleena Patel, a graduate student in chemical and biological engineering. Professors Rebecca Burdine, left, and Stanislav Shvartsman, right, were co-principal investigators on the project.Research -
December 3, 2019Shared reading between parents and very young children, including infants, is associated with stronger vocabulary skills for nearly all children by age 3.Research -
November 27, 2019New Jersey is home to some of the world’s most accomplished innovators in applied science. Bonnie Bassler is among three who are being honored by Liberty Science Center at its inaugural “The Genius of NJ” celebration on Monday, December 2.Grants, Fellowships and Awards