Awards and Honors | School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

The School of Molecular & Cellular Biology and its departments of Biochemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular & Integrative Physiology recognize outstanding undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff, and alumni with several awards and fellowships. In addition to school and departmental honors, MCB is always thrilled to highlight awards from other campus units, and national/international organizations. Some of the most recent news stories spotlighting our community are listed below.

Dr. Robert Gennis Invested as Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor

2009-06-18

Professor of Biochemistry Robert Gennis has been invested as a Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor.

Woese to Recieve Achievement Award

2009-02-23

Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese will be honored this year with the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on microbe diversity.

UI researcher named Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2006-04-24

William T. Greenough was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 24. His research has crossed across the disciplines and he holds multiple faculty appointments. He is a Swanlund Endowed Chair, director of the university's Center for Advanced Study and a professor in the...

Research involving adult stem cells receives state grants

2006-05-04

Stephen J. Kaufman was awarded a state grant last week for his research on stem cells. "Kaufman, a professor of cell and developmental biology and member of the university's neuroscience program, — received $250,000 to focus on mesoangioblasts adult stem cells that have the capacity to become...

Microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society.

U. of I. microbiologist Carl Woese elected to Royal Society

2006-05-19

"Microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, the world's oldest continuously active scientific academy in the world."

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Critical research initiatives receive recognition, funding

2006-08-03

The Vice Chancellor for Research's Critical Research Initiatives program will sponsor six projects this year. Of those six, co-principal investigators Wilfred van der Donk, professor of chemistry and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry and William Metcalf, professor of microbiology, have...

Robert B. Gennis awarded an honorary doctorate

2006-09-29

The Faculty of Natural Sciences of Stockholm University made the award to Professor Gennis in a ceremony held at City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. The award was for achievements in the area of Bioenergetics.

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Ten professors at Illinois elected as 2006 Fellows

2006-11-27

Akria Chiba, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, and of entomology, and Mark E. Nelson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, biophysics, bioengineering and neuroscience, are two of ten faculty members at the U. of I. to have been have been awarded the distinction of...

Achievements: A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members

2007-01-18

Wilfred van der Donk, affiliate of the department of biochemistry, received the 2007 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. He won the award in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry.

Illinois professor to be inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

2007-02-08

Paul C. Lauterbur, Nobel laureate and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chemistry professor, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Lauterbur was selected for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging, an important tool in modern medicine.