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March 16, 2023Donia and Ploss awarded Princeton accelerator funding
Six new innovations with potential to benefit society will receive university funding to aid in the transition from early-stage research into real-world products and services. Two of the six projects awarded in 2022 are to faculty in the Department of Molecular Biology.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
March 1, 2023Ploss Lab researchers find a path toward Hep E treatment
In a paper published Feb. 28 in the journal eLife, a team of researchers headed by Alexander Ploss settle a debate about a key protein in hepatitis E (Hep E), which could open the way to developing treatments for a tiny virus that poses an outsized threat to public health around the globe.Research
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October 20, 2020Yan is being recognized for her seminal contributions to our structural understanding of the molecular mechanisms of membrane protein function and modulation.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
October 6, 2020Michelle Chan, Cameron Myhrvold and AJ te Velthuis will join the MOL faculty as Assistant Professors this academic year.Department Announcement -
October 1, 2020Rohan Shah '20 writes a compelling summary of his last semester on campus and the race for a COVID vaccine.Department Announcement -
September 21, 2020When the pandemic shut down almost all on-campus research, students who had arranged in-person summer research internships needed to pivot quickly. Jonathan Wang ’21 spent his summer tracking how housing insecurity affects treatment outcomes for people affected by opioid addiction.Research -
September 17, 2020“Do not erase.” “Recycle me.” “Free to a good home.” Inside our cells, a sophisticated recycling system uses its own enzymatic signs to flag certain cells for destruction — and a different set of enzymes can remove those flags.Research -
September 14, 2020In their paper appearing in the journal eLife, Princeton researchers Amir Erez, Jaime Lopez, Ned Wingreen and colleagues use mathematical modeling to explore how species diversity in a bacterial community is affected when the nutrients the microbes depend upon are only seasonally available.Research -
September 14, 2020The Department of Molecular Biology shipped laboratory kits to students around the world so they could conduct “at-home” experiments as part of their courses, and music and arts courses have been transformed so students can still get hands-on, practical experiences.Department Announcement -
September 9, 2020Princeton researchers Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore, Coleen Murphy and colleagues have discovered that the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans recognizes a small RNA made by a pathogenic bacterium, and uses that RNA to convey learned avoidance of the bacterium to offspring.Research -
September 8, 2020Mohamed Abou Donia received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for demonstrating the potential of the human microbiome as a source of novel drugs and uncovering the basis of microbiome-driven drug metabolism.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 24, 2020Nieng Yan, the Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, will be given the Florence R. Sabin Award for Research Excellence by Graduate Women in Science (GWIS). Dr. Yan is interviewed in this month's GWIS newsletter.Department Announcement -
August 19, 2020Researchers at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology and the Bendheim-Thomas Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) will receive a $9-million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) to conduct an innovative study on heart health, genetics, and social determinants among vulnerable children in 12 cities across the United States.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 13, 2020A Princeton team, including Jared Toettcher and Agnieszja Gil, has developed a class of light-switchable, highly adaptable molecular tools with new capabilities to control cellular activities.Research -
August 4, 2020Murphy is among 22 researchers selected to receive grant funding to advance the field of reproductive aging from the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
July 31, 2020Congratulations to Jorge Moreno, a graduate student in the lab of Ricardo Mallarino, for being named an HHMI Gilliam Fellow. The Fellowship supports diversity in science.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
July 30, 2020This summer, through her involvement in the American Physician Scientist Association, Briana Macedo '22 started the organization's first Virtual Summer Research Program.Department Announcement