Congratulations to Chris Hughes for being selected as a UCI Chancellor’s Professor. The Chancellor’s title is designated for faculty who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and show continued promise for high scholarly achievement. It is…
Professor Brian Sato is a co-PI on a 5-year $1.5M NSF award for The AGEP University of California Alliance: A Model to Advance Equitable Hiring of Teaching-Focused Faculty in STEM. Check it out https://research.bio.uci.edu/opportunities-and-awards/…
Pavan Kadandale has been awarded a couple of grants to create a pathway for prison students to obtain a UCI degree. This is the first program of its kind within the UC-system. Check-it out! https://diverseeducation.com/article/183227/….
Distinguished Professor Charlie Glabe has been named a 2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors – for more information please visit https://www.bio.uci.edu/charles-glabe-2020-fellow/….
Izra Abbaali, graduate student in Naomi Morrissette’s lab, won the “Best Talk” award at the Southern California Eukaryotic Pathogens Symposium.
The Annual Southern Californian Eukaryotic Pathogen Symposium (SCEP) brings together researchers from more than 15 different…
We’d like to welcome our newest faculty to the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry: Dr. Christopher J. Halbrook and Dr. Travis Wiles!…
A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it….
Please join our department in welcoming Dr. Roberto Tinoco to our faculty roster!…
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Professor David Fruman has published a new manuscript in the journal Science Translational Medicine. In the paper, Dr. Fruman and colleagues identify an alternative anti-cancer benefit of statins – drugs normally prescribed for…