Lewis receives Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Faculty Grant
February 18, 2020
Samantha Lewis, MCB Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has received the 2020 Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation Faculty Grant.
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Huge bacteria-eating viruses narrow gap between life and non-life
February 12, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers and collaborators, including Jennifer Doudna and Jamie Cate, have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms.
Brohawn named Sloan Fellow
February 12, 2020
Assistant Professor Stephen Brohawn has been selected for a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given yearly to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States and Canada.
Neuroscientist John Ngai named director of NIH BRAIN Initiative
January 29, 2020
Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, John Ngai, has been picked by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head its BRAIN initiative, a multibillion-dollar federal research push to develop new tools for understanding how the brain works and lead to new treatments for brain disorders.
Nobelists urge Trump to require free access to taxpayer-funded publications
January 28, 2020
Led by UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman, 21 Nobel laureates from the United States have sent an open letter to President Donald Trump urging him to follow through on a rumored plan to make all federally funded research studies free for the public.
Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine
January 14, 2020
Jennifer Doudna, professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry, has won the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine, a prestigious international prize awarded in Israel for unique contributions to humanity.
Lab-made proteins mimic cellular gatekeepers
January 09, 2020
In a study published this week in the journal Nature, professor Ting Xu and collaborators describe the first lab-made versions of gatekeeper proteins that filter good from bad just as well as the real thing.
Schepartz among American Chemical Society’s 2020 awardees
January 09, 2020
Professor Alanna Schepartz has been awarded this year’s Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS).