The campus celebrated the launch of the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI), a partnership between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers and the biopharmaceutical industry to perfect new gene-editing techniques and apply them to drug development and global health in general.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
February 04, 2015
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology David Weisblat has received the UC Berkeley Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service, along with Professor Denise Herd of the School of Public Health.
January 28, 2015
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Eva Nogales has received the 2015 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from The Protein Society. The award is granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science which profoundly influence our understanding of biology.
From the Protein Society Website...
January 27, 2015
2013 Nobel Prize winner, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Randy Schekman was selected to give the inaugural Capstone Seminar for the new BBS, CDB and GGD divisional seminar series. The video of his seminar is now available to view online.
January 23, 2015
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Nicholas Ingolia and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Elçin Ünal have been named as two of six winners of the 2015 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for early career scientists doing novel research into cancer.
December 19, 2014
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Roberto Zoncu, who was previously selected as a 2014 Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research, is the subject of a research profile by the Pew Charitable Trusts site.
December 18, 2014
Research by Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Nipam Patel on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless "structural color" is featured on KQED Science.
December 16, 2014
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
December 09, 2014
Professors of Neurobiology Ehud Isacoff and John Flannery have published research on a new genetic therapy that restores light-sensitivity to blind mice and dogs.
November 26, 2014
The Fall 2014 edition of the MCB Transcript newsletter is now available, including research profiles of the following new faculty members: Nicholas Ingolia, Gloria Brar, Elçin Ünap, Dirk Hockemeyer, and Roberto Zoncu.