2024-09-04
- A recent recall of more than seven million pounds of deli meat has marked the largest listeria outbreak since 2011, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak has been traced to a Boar’s Head meat plant in Virginia, leading to the hospitalization of nearly sixty people who...
2024-08-30 - Nicholas Wu, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, is among the newest cohort of Vallee Scholars named Friday by the Vallee Foundation. The award recognizes outstanding junior faculty members conducting innovative biomedical research and...
2024-08-23 - Five faculty members from the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology have been recognized for their excellence in research and teaching through named scholar positions and distinguished promotions. Congratulations to Sayee Anakk, Auinash Kalsotra, Paola Mera, Lori Raetzman, and Joe Sanfilippo! Sayeepriyadarshini (Sayee) Anakk...
2024-08-23 - This summer we've profiled recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-08-21 - The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2025 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field. Among those receiving honors are University...
2024-08-19 - An AI language model developed by Illinois researchers for sequence-based antibody specificity prediction and published in Immunity will accelerate epitope mapping and improve scientists’ understanding of the B-cell repertoire. The model, which distinguishes between antibodies targeting the head and stem domains of human...
2024-08-07 - The National Institutes of Health has approved the T32 grant, “Interdisciplinary Research Training at the Interface of Reproductive Sciences and Bioengineering." The training program is aimed at predoctoral students who want to work at the interface of reproductive sciences and engineering, two long-standing areas of research excellence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Both the...
2024-08-07 - This summer we're profiling recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-07-23 - Jim Collins’ research isn’t for the faint of heart — or stomach. “We don’t talk about it at the dinner table,” he laughed. Collins, a parasitologist who conducted his postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois, studies parasitic flatworms known as schistosomes. These parasites have caused profound morbidity in over 200 million of the world’s poorest people. Recently named an...
2024-07-23 - This summer we're profiling recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-07-22 - This summer we're profiling recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-07-19 - This summer we're profiling recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-07-15 - Auinash Kalsotra, a professor of biochemistry, and Martha Gillette, a professor of cell & developmental biology, were among the dozens of researchers chosen to be part of the inaugural cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago Investigators. The 48-member...
2024-07-12 - This summer we're profiling recipients of summer undergraduate research fellowships to learn about their academic interests and glance into their daily lives as undergraduate...
2024-07-09 - The weight-loss treatment landscape has been remade by a new class of injectable drugs, such as those sold under the names Ozempic and Wegovy. Patrick Sweeney is a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of molecular and integrative physiology who studies the pathways and processes in the brain that govern eating...