December 08, 2020
Markita Landry, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, has received the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Frontiers of Imaging grant to support her research in deep tissue imaging.
December 03, 2020
Sanjay Kumar, QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate and professor of bioengineering, is one of five Berkeley scholars to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies.
November 17, 2020
MCB Professor of Neurobiology David Schaffer has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2020 Andreas Acrivos Professional Progress Award.
October 14, 2020
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Carlos Bustamante has been awarded the 2021 Biophysical Society (BPS) Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics.
October 14, 2020
Rapid advances in gene-editing technology have a transformative potential to help cure disease and feed the world, but scientists must assure that the tools are not used for unethical purposes, new UC Berkeley Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna told reporters today.
October 14, 2020
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
September 10, 2020
Russell Vance, Molecular and Cell Biology professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis has been awarded the Cancer Research Institute’s 2020 William B. Cley Award for his research and discoveries in immunology.
June 25, 2020
Paul Alivisatos, Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and UC Berkeley professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, has been awarded the 2021 Priestley Medal.