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April 16, 2021Junior Natalia Orlovsky Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Orlovsky is one of three Princeton undergraduates to receive this annual award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.Department Announcement -
April 13, 2021Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Princeton University partner to ‘push the frontiers’ on diet, metabolism and cancer
Molecular Biology's Yibin Kang is among three principal investigators heading up the Ludwig Princeton Branch, a new branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research based at Princeton University.Department Announcement
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June 5, 2019The Department of Molecular Biology graduated 49 concentrators on Class Day 2019. Ellie Randolph (left) and Benjamim Jacobson (right) received the award given for the best thesis, the Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Research, from chair Bonnie Bassler and DUS Liz Gavis.Department Announcement -
June 4, 2019Ned Wingreen receives President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, June 4.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
May 30, 2019The enzyme Nocturnin, which governs daily tasks such as fat metabolism and energy usage, works in an entirely different way than previously thought, reported a team of researchers at Princeton University.Research -
May 28, 2019Molecular Biology's Nieng Yan's research is among a wide-ranging collection of new projects from disciplines across campus that have been selected to receive Princeton funding through the Dean for Research Innovation Funds.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
May 24, 2019A new paper from Betsy Hart of the Silhavy lab and members of the Wühr lab reveals how two components, known as BamB and BamE, coordinate the b-barrel assembly machine's activity to prevent it from becoming jammed.Research -
May 13, 2019An all-Princeton research team has identified bacteria that can detect the speed of flowing fluids.Research -
May 10, 2019Small differences in a liver cell protein have significant impacts on hepatitis C virus replication in mice and humans, findings that could facilitate the development of a mouse model of the infection. The report, led by researchers in the Ploss Lab, was published today in the journal eLIFE.Research -
May 1, 2019Professor Nieng Yan is among four Princeton faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 19, 2019Josh Bilenker MD '94 and Jake Van Naarden '06 engaged with students and postdocs as they recounted the genesis of Loxo OncologyDepartment Announcement -
April 17, 2019Research -
April 17, 2019Molecular Biology Professor Virginia Zakian is one of six Princeton faculty members elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 15, 2019A postdoc in the lab of Ricardo Mallarino, Sha Li has been named one of Princeton's first Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 15, 2019Kang Lab researchers have discovered a factor that promotes the spread of cancers to bone, opening the way toward treatments that could mitigate cancer’s ability to colonize bone. The study by Mark Esposito, Yibin Kang and colleagues appears in the April 15 issue of Nature Cell Biology.Research -
April 1, 2019Mallarino was selected for his project “How to Build a Gliding Mammal: Deciphering the Positional Regulatory Code of Mammalian Skin.” His lab studies two mammal models, striped rodents and gliding mammals, to understand how genes encode for skin and hair pigmentation and gliding mechanisms.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
March 25, 2019The American Association for Cancer Research announced today that Eric Wieschaus, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is one of 22 newly elected fellows of the AACR Academy.Grants, Fellowships and Awards