March 2nd, 2022 – Eric Galburt, PhD, Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, received a new five-year MIRA grant award from National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research entitled “Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription Initiation and DNA Repair”.
March 1st, 2022 – Jim Janetka, PhD, Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and David Sibley, Professor in Molecular Microbiology received a new five-year grant R01 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the NIH totaling 3.9 million dollars for their research entitled “Optimizing CDPK1 inhibitors for chronic toxoplasmosis”.
October 22nd, 2021 – Alex Holehouse, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, received a one year renewal grant award from Longer Life Foundation for his research entitled “Predicting the functional impact of genetic variation within intrinsically disordered protein regions”.
September 30th, 2021 – Jim Janetka, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Makedonka Mitreva, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and Sara Lustigman, Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology Member, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center have received a new multi-PI R01 award from the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute entitled “Integrative approach for accelerating filarial worm drug discovery to treat river blindness”.
September 17th, 2021 – Roberto Galletto, PhD, Associate Professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics was awarded a new five year MIRA grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research entitled “Functions of DNA helicases at hard-to-replicate sites and telomere regulation”.
September 15th, 2021 – Daniel Griffith, BS, Pre-Doc Trainee in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and the laboratory of Alex Holehouse, PhD, received a new three-year Graduate Research Fellowship award from the National Science Foundation for his research entitled “Investigating the molecular grammar driving the assembly of membraneless-organelles”.
August 24th, 2021 – Benjamin Garcia, PhD, Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and Head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, along with Matthew D. Weitzman, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, received a five year grant renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for their research entitled “Viral modulation of epitranscriptomic mechanisms”.
August 23rd, 2021 – Jhullian Jamille Alston, BA, Pre-Doc Trainee in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and the laboratories of Alex Holehouse, PhD and Andrea Soranno, PhD, received a Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute for his research entitled “Single Molecule Biophysics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Disease”.
August 18th, 2021 – Alex Holehouse, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, along with Shahar Sukenik, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of California, Merced, and Thomas Boothby, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, received a new four year grant award from the National Science Foundation through the new “Integrative Research in Biology” mechanism for their research entitled “Collaborative Research: Functional Synergy Between Disordered Proteins and their Environment in Desiccation Protection”.
August 17th, 2021 – Matthew A Cruz, BS, Pre-Doc Trainee in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and the laboratory of Gregory Bowman, PhD, received a new three-year fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for his research entitled “Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments”.