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July 28, 2022Katherine Morillo Awarded 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
Katherine Morillo, a MOL BIO graduate student in the lab of Coleen Murphy, has been awarded an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship. The award provides $53,000 for up to three years for outstanding graduate students and their advisers who are committed to building an inclusive environmentDepartment Announcement -
May 31, 2022Emeritus Professor Austin Newton died May 13
Dr. Austin Newton died on May 13 in Princeton at eighty-five. He was born in Richmond, Texas, the son of Dr. Edward P. and Catherine W. Newton. After graduating from the University of Texas–Austin in 1959 and with a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California–Berkeley in 1964, Dr. Newton joined the group headed by the Nobel Laureate Jacques Monod at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr.Department Announcement
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March 10, 2020Researchers in the lab of Alexander Ploss have identified a set of human proteins that the hepatitis B virus (HBV) uses to establish itself permanently inside liver cells.Research -
March 5, 2020Researchers led by graduate student Shannon Keenan and professors Stanislav Shvartsman and Eric Wieschaus used light to control a protein that represses genes and is tied to the onset of disease and developmental disorders.Research -
March 3, 2020Rebecca Moore, a MOL Graduate Student in the Murphy lab, was chosen as a Harold M Weintraub Graduate Student by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterDepartment Announcement -
March 3, 2020MOL majors were among students who traveled to Silicon Valley during winter break to pitch potential new biotech products based on University technologyDepartment Announcement -
February 27, 2020Princeton, Rutgers and NJIT have received a CTSA grant from the NIH to speed translation of research into innovations that can lead to improvements in patient and public health. Dan Notterman is the lead PI for Princeton.Department Announcement -
February 18, 2020Alexei Korrenykh's research has been awarded funding from the University’s Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund, which aims to speed the development of innovative projects into real-world applications.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 18, 2020Kang lab researchers are exploring ways to extend the benefits of immunotherapy to more cancer types, including breast tumor cells. Princeton University's IP Accelarator Funding will help support this research.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 18, 2020With funding from the IP Accelerator Fund, molecules that show activity against HBV will be further tested in cell culture and animal models developed by the Ploss group.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
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, 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 -
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 -
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