April 01, 2021
CRISPR-Cas9 treatment of sickle cell disease has been approved for clinical trials by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Researchers will now test CRISPR-Cas9 on humans to directly correct the mutation in the beta-globin gene responsible for sickle cell disease.
February 25, 2021
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel.
January 08, 2021
Christopher J. Chang, Class of 1942 Chair Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Berkeley, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award.
December 10, 2020
On the morning that University of California, Berkeley, professor Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, her first stop after a 7 a.m. press conference and subsequent media interviews was her campus lab in the Innovative Genomics Institute.
December 10, 2020
Jennifer Doudna’s trip to Stockholm had to be postponed, but a delegation from Sweden delivered the Nobel Prize medal and diploma to her doorstep on Dec. 8.
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.