August 12, 2025
Today, the Pew Charitable Trusts announced that four UC Berkeley researchers will be recognized as 2025 Pew Scholars. The early-career biomedical scientists will receive multi-year research grants and join a rich network of more than 1,000 Pew-funded scientists. Ana Paula Arruda and Cara Brook — an assistant professor of nutritional science and toxicology and an…
August 05, 2025
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce that Jennifer A. Doudna is the recipient of the 2026 Priestley Medal. This award is the highest honor bestowed by ACS, and it annually recognizes an individual for distinguished service to chemistry. Doudna receives the award for “outstanding discoveries on ribozyme function, Dicer and double-stranded RNA processing…
July 24, 2025
India is the most populous country in the world, home to 1.5 billion people and more than 5,000 anthropologically well-defined ethno-linguistic and religious groups. However, Indian genomes have been largely left out of the conversation of human history. Researchers at UC Berkeley in Priya Moorjani’s lab were interested in examining questions related to India’s genomic…
June 26, 2025
India is one of the most diverse countries in the world. A new analysis of Indian genomes shows an ancient admixture of genes from Neanderthals and Denisovans, and more recent mingling of genes from Iranian farmers, Central Asian steppe pastoralists and hunter-gatherers from South Asia. Photo courtesy of unsplash With around 5,000 different ethno-linguistic and…
June 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), in partnership with the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), honored Jay Keasling, senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), with the 2025 OTC/NAI Innovator of the Year Award. The honor is awarded each year…
June 25, 2025
Ever wonder how your body digests food, or how some industrial processes become “greener”? The answer often lies with enzymes – nature’s microscopic workhorses that speed up vital chemical reactions. A recent study in Science, uses a high-throughput enzymology platform to study nearly 200 different versions of an enzyme called adenylate kinase found in living things…
May 20, 2025
Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Among the new fellows is QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Eva Nogales. This year’s cohort include trailblazers across a wide range of fields, from artificial intelligence and electron microscopy to global…
May 02, 2025
The National Academy of Sciences has added eight UC Berkeley faculty members to its esteemed ranks of scholars and experts who advise governments and other organizations on subjects in academic fields ranging from chemistry and physics to psychology and economic policy. This year’s election of 120 members and 30 international members recognizes scholars’ distinguished and…