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."
Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
October 07, 2020
October 06, 2020
Congratulations to Associate Professor Polina Lishko on being named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow!
October 05, 2020
MCB Assistant Professor Andrea Gomez has been awarded a 2020 Young Investigator Grant from The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
October 01, 2020
How do cells regulate essential processes like metabolism, heart rate, and breathing? Researchers in the Brohawn lab found new nanosensors that help explain how these systems work.
September 28, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Caroline Kane on being named a 2020 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Fellow!
September 22, 2020
On September 18th, the MCB Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) hosted its annual Fall Symposium virtually via Zoom.
September 21, 2020
Please join use in congratulating the recipients of the 2020 MCB Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Awards!
September 16, 2020
The Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) initiative, in partnership with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, announced yesterday their first-round grantees of the ASAP Collaborative Research Network (CRN). MCB professors of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology James Hurley and Donald Rio are leading two of the teams.
September 15, 2020
Congratulations to MCB Associate Professors Polina Lishko and Roberto Zoncu, who will collaborate with fellow reseachers as part of the 2020 class of Pew Trusts Innovation Fund investigators!
September 10, 2020
Learn more about the latest efforts from the MCB community to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and and end the COVID-19 pandemic through innovative research, new collaborations, and public service here.