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Yejing Ge, a graduate student in Jie Chen Lab, is the recipient of the 2012 Procter & Gamble Graduate Student Research Award. Read more...
Tyler Moran, Ph.D., who completed his thesis in the lab of Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Lori Raetzman, was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award. Read more...
In a new study, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Kevin Xiang and colleagues show that the PGE2 stimulation attenuates the adrenergic-induced cardiac contractile response in animal hearts. Read more...
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Rachel Smith-Bolton has been awarded the highly competitive 3-year Carver Young Investigator Award. The award pays $300,000 over three years. Read more...
Corresponding author Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Claudio Grosman, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair, and colleagues have published new work in PNAS. Read more...
Team discovers how a cancer-causing bacterium spurs cell death
A new study led by Professor of Microbiology Stephen Blanke, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show how a bacterial toxin can disrupt a cell’s mitochondria – its energy-generation and distribution system – to disable the cell and spur apoptosis (programmed cell death).
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