| Congratulations to our recently promoted faculty! |
Stephen Brohawn – MCB Associate Professor of Neurobiology |
Eunyong Park – MCB Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
Roberto Zoncu – MCB Professor of Molecular Therapeutics |
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Associate Professor Helen Bateup – MCB Outstanding Teaching Award |
Professor Christopher Chang – 2024 American Chemical Society (ACS) Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry |
Professor Michelle Chang – 2024 American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry; 2023 Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry |
Professor Jennifer Doudna – Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame |
Professor David Drubin – Keith R. Porter Lecture Award from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB); Outstanding Teaching Award from the MCB Department, UC Berkeley |
Professor Marla Feller – Member National Academy of Sciences; Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Professor of the Graduate School Gary Firestone – Berkeley Faculty Service Award |
Assistant Professor Liana Lareau – Shu Chien Early Career Award |
Assistant Professor Samantha Lewis – 2023 Prytanean Faculty Enrichment Award; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Measuring Metabolism Across Scales grant |
Professor Ellen Lumpkin – 2023 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy |
Professor Susan Marqusee – Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation overseeing Biological Sciences (on loan) |
Assistant Professor Megan Martik – NIH Director's New Innovator Award |
Professor Eva Nogales – 2023 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine |
Assistant Professor James Nuñez – 2023 Spark Award from the Bakar Fellows Program |
Assistant Professor Eunyong Park – 2023 Amgen Young Investigator Award |
Professor Michael Rapé – Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) |
Assistant Professor (Affiliated) Filipa Rijo-Ferreira – NIH Director's New Innovator Award; 2023 Searle Scholar |
Assistant Professor Robert Saxton – ARC Institute Ignite Award; 2023 ICIS-Regeneron New Investigator Award for Excellence in Cytokine & Interferon Research |
Professor Alanna Schepartz – ARC Institute Innovation Investigator |
Assistant Professor Ian Swinburne – 2023–2024 Hellman Fellow |
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jeremy Thorner – appointed by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) to chair a multi-national committee to update the nomenclature for the human protein kinases and their orthologs in the Enzyme Convention (EC) database. |
Assistant Professor Denis Titov – Koret–Berkeley–TAU (KBT) Initiative in Computational Biology Joint Research Grant Award; UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Faculty Seed Award |
Professor of the Graduate School David Weisblat – elected to the 2023 Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Academy |
Professor Roberto Zoncu – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Measuring Metabolism Across Scales grant |
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