In: Current Awardee
Fan Zhao
April 18, 2025My research established a detailed understanding of how E3 and E2 enzymes, Bre1 and Rad6, cooperatively mediate histone H2B ubiquitination, and…
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Zhong Yi Yeow
April 18, 2025During my postdoc in the Holland lab at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, I uncovered how the protein TRIM37…
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Yu Kang “Tiger” Xu
April 18, 2025To coordinate billions of electrical impulses that must arrive with millisecond precision, the brain employs myelin — fatty insulation that modulates…
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James Saba
April 18, 2025The ribosome is a macromolecular complex that is essential for life. My work provides deeper understanding of how mammalian cells regulate…
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Rong Wu
April 18, 2025As a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Shuying Sun’s lab in the Department of Physiology, I investigated how RNA repeats regulate RNP…
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Alejandra Montaño Romero
April 18, 2025Using theoretical and applied biophysical methods, we discovered how a patient mutation in a class of glutamate receptors responsible for excitatory…
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Tushar D. Nichakawade
April 18, 2025T cells can be engineered to target and kill cancer cells via synthetic proteins called chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). In the…
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Anish Kumar Mondal
April 18, 2025My research uncovered the molecular mechanism by which the brain’s major neurotransmitter, glutamate, activates its principal receptor, the AMPA-subtype ionotropic glutamate…
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Alexandra D. Medcalf
April 18, 2025During the past two years, I have been working in Dr. Jennifer Pluznick’s lab investigating the mechanism of a specific receptor…
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Yongqing Liu
April 18, 2025I joined Dr. Zhaozhu Qiu’s lab for postdoctoral training in September 2019. I’m interested in studying the role of epigenetic factors…
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