Read the recent Wall Street Journal article featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna's Crispr-CAS9 research, Why Gene-Editing Technology Has Scientists Excited: Researchers explore the idea of treating disease by replacing defective genes.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
June 26, 2015
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Stephan Lammel was awarded the 2015 Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship which is a competitive award on campus. It provides summer salary awards to junior faculty, allowing them to devote their time exclusively to research, independent study, or improving their teaching effectiveness.
June 22, 2015
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Jennifer Doudna has been honored with the 2015 Gruber Genetics Prize along with her CrisprCAS9 collaborator, Emmanuelle Charpentier. The International Prize Program honors individuals whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.
June 18, 2015
This summer brings change to MCB -- the Co-Chairs thank past division heads for their service and announce some new division, committee, and program heads.
June 12, 2015
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Diana Bautista's research identifies a serotonin receptor, HTR7, as a key mediator of eczema and other forms of itch.
June 12, 2015
Two scientists in Molecular and Cell Biology have been recognized by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Polina Lishko has been selected as one of this year’s Pew Scholars, a program for investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. Postdoctoral Researcher Juan-Pablo Castillo (in Carlos Bustamante's lab) has been named a Pew Latin American Fellow.
June 11, 2015
An exciting new center has been established on campus to provide the technology and training required to make new optical tools accessible to the broad neuroscience community. MCB Professors Ehud Isacoff and G. Steven Martin were present to celebrate the grand opening.
June 05, 2015
The UC Berkeley Cancer Research Lab, a research unit associated with Molecular and Cell Biology, is joining the Cancer Research Institute to promote June as Cancer Immunotherapy Month.
June 02, 2015
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Gloria Brar and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Elçin Ünal are 2015 recipients of Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards from the March of Dimes.
June 01, 2015
Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for their gene editing technology. The Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research is given to those whose research findings and/or inventions represent an outstanding contribution to the progress and welfare of humanity.