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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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March 18, 2019William Jacobs, professor of biology, emeritus, and a renowned botanist who studied and explained the hormonal basis of plant development, died March 3 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 99.Department Announcement -
March 18, 2019It takes thousands of genes to build the photosynthetic machinery that plants need to harness sunlight for growth. And yet, researchers don’t know exactly how these genes work.Research -
March 12, 2019T cells are like the special ops forces of the immune system, detecting and killing infected cells. When a new threat is detected, the cells ramp up from just a few sentry cells to a full platoon. But how does the immune system make just the right amount of T cells, when the starting populations of T cells vary?Research -
March 12, 2019A post for Microsoft’s Innovation Stories blog describes the Station B platform, which researchers from Princeton will test to investigate the formation of biofilms — surface-associated communities of bacteria that are the leading cause of microbial infection worldwide.Research -
February 21, 2019Assistant Professor Ricardo Mallarino was selected to receive a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, a highly competitive grant given to outstanding young scholars working at the frontiers of their fields.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 11, 2019Fifteen 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, 2019Alexander 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 -
January 31, 2019The first moments of life unfold with incredible precision. Now, using mathematical tools and the help of fruit flies, researchers at Princeton have uncovered new findings about the mechanisms behind this precision.Research -
December 20, 2018Princeton professors Mala Murthy and Joshua Shaevitz are using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically track animals’ individual body parts in existing video.Research -
December 14, 2018Vesna Bacic, an extraordinary member of our grants team for more than twenty years, is the recipient of the 2018 Arthur Epstein Award. The award is presented annually to a staff member who has demonstrated initiative, teamwork and extraordinary efforts in service to Molecular Biology.Department Announcement -
December 13, 2018Bonnie Bassler and graduate student Justin Silpe have identified a virus, VP882, that can listen in on bacterial conversations — and then, in a twist like something out of a spy novel, they found a way to use that to make it attack bacterial diseases like E. coli and cholera.Research -
December 12, 2018The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has selected Thomas Shenk as one of the 148 fellows for 2018.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
December 10, 2018Last fall, Professor Nieng Yan returned to Princeton — she’d earned her Ph.D. here in 2004 — as the first Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, to lead the University’s efforts in cryo-EM — a technology so influential that its development was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Research -
December 10, 2018John Hopfield won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics “for applying concepts of theoretical physics to provide new insights on important biological questions in a variety of areas, including neuroscience and genetics, with significant impact on machine learning, an area of computer science.”Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
December 5, 2018Slimy, hard-to-clean bacterial mats called biofilms cause problems ranging from medical infections to clogged drains and fouled industrial equipment. Now, researchers at Princeton have found a way to cleanly and completely peel off these notorious sludges.Research