MCB Professor Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2016 Dickson Prize in Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This prize is the Pitt School of Medicine’s most prestigious annual award.
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
MCB Professor Jennifer Doudna is the recipient of the 2016 Dickson Prize in Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This prize is the Pitt School of Medicine’s most prestigious annual award.
UC Berkeley researchers, led by MCB and Chemistry Professor Christopher Chang, have now clarified the critical role that copper plays in nutrition: It helps move fat out of fat cells – called adipocytes – and into the blood stream for use as energy. That being said, we still don't recommend eating pennies.
Assistant Professor Gloria Brar has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and Assistant Professor Dirk Hockemeyer has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research by the Pew Charitable Trusts. There are only 22 biomedical scholars, and 5 cancer scholars named in the nation per year.
Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology Mu-Ming Poo has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Gruber Neuroscience Prize for his pioneering and inspiring work on synaptic plasticity. Much of this work was done at UC Berkeley.
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Hillel Adesnik has received a 2016 American Association of Anatomists (AAA) Young Investigator Award - C. J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy. The award recognizes investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions to biomedical science through their research.
Peter Walentek, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Harland's lab, has received a K99/R00 NIH Pathway to Independence Award designed to foster the transiton of new investigators to research independence. It provides close to $1 Million in funding to support his research and for starting his own lab.
MCB Associate Professor Lin He and her team "developed a quicker and more efficient method to alter the genes of mice with CRISPR-Cas9, simplifying a procedure growing in popularity because of the ease of using the new gene-editing tool."
President Barack Obama welcomed the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to the White House, including MCB Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Hillel Adesnik.
Thornton Thompson, an MCB graduate student in the Raulet Lab, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31), awarded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His project title is "Role and Regulation of NKG2D Ligand Expression on Tumor-Infiltrating Myeloid Cells."
MCB and Chemistry Professor Michael Marletta has been elected as a new member of the American Philosophical Society. The society was founded in Philadelphia in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge” in the sciences and humanities -- an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, it was the first established learned society in the U.S.