Three MCB faculty have received endowed chairs, which honors their distinctive achievements and acts as an enduring tribute to the donor or donors who establish them.
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
November 09, 2020
November 04, 2020
Congratulations to Helen Bateup on receiving tenure and her promotion to MCB Associate Professor!
October 26, 2020
Congratulations to MCB Associate Professor Elçin Ünal on receiving the 2020 Sabri Ülker Science Award!
October 19, 2020
It is with great sadness we report the passing of our colleague Richard Calendar, Ph.D., who was Professor of Molecular Biology (1968-1989) and, after our reorganization of the biological sciences, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (1989-2009), and, then, a Professor of the Graduate School (2009-2020), here at the University of California, Berkeley.
October 19, 2020
We are pleased to announce the addition of a new MCB Professor, Doris Tsao, arriving in July 2021.
October 15, 2020
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dipti Nayak on receiving a 2020 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering.
October 12, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Carlos Bustamante on his 2021 Biophysical Society Kazuhiko Kinosita Award!
October 08, 2020
Congratuations to MCB Lecturer Robin Ball for receiving a UC Berkeley 2020 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors!
October 07, 2020
MCB Professor Kathleen Collins has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award, which supports exceptionally creative scientists proposing pioneering approaches.
October 07, 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded MCB Professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for development of a method for genome editing."