Category: Achievements

Judith Kimble, professor of biochemistry at UW–Madison and a faculty mentor for the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, has been selected by President Obama to chair the selection committee for the National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Science is awarded to individuals to recognize “outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, …

An important study led by the laboratory of MCP Faculty Member Dr. Ronald Raines was published in the latest issue of ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society. The experiment identified Globo H, a well-known human cancer antigen, as a binding site for Human Ribonuclease 1, an enzyme that can kill cells by degrading their …

A study that was published online this week by Molecular Cell  was the work of an interdisciplinary team of UW–Madison Scientists, building largely off the work of MCP Faculty Member Dr. Emery Bresnick. The Bresnick lab has previously shown that GATA-2, a protein that binds DNA to modulate gene transcription, plays an important role in hematopoiesis. Dr. …

MCP Faculty Member, Baron Chanda, from the Department of Neuroscience, was one of nine UW–Madison faculty members recently selected to receive a Romnes Faculty Fellowship. This award, given out by the Graduate School, recognizes exceptional young faculty members who have earned tenure recently. Dr. Chanda researches the molecular mechanisms underlying voltage-gated ion channels. View the Chanda Lab …

2-12-15: MCP Graduate Student Khoa Tran, in the laboratory of Dr. Rupa Sridharan (Dept. of Cell & Regenerative Biology) was the lead author on a paper recently published in Nature Communications, “Collaborative rewiring of the pluripotency network by chromatin and signaling modulating pathways.” The paper describes more efficient methods for the reprogramming of differentiated cells to …