Spudich has made his mark with pioneering discoveries on molecular motors—the tiny powerhouses responsible for movement at the cellular level. For this research, he has won a 2016 Alumni Achievement Award—one in a long line of honors. He also won the prestigious Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research...

"Do something that means something to you; that you are passionate about."

The Department of Biochemistry and the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology congratulate Professor David Shapiro, who has been named the Eugene Howe Scholar in Biochemistry.

MCB wishes to thank our inspiring alumni speaker, Dr. Tamara Helfer, for celebrating the graduation of the class of 2015 with her commencement address.

Sodium ions (Na+) play diverse and important roles in biological processes, and yet few sensors with high sensitivity and selectivity for Na+ over other competing metal ions have been reported. In this study, the authors reported the first highly selective, sensitive, and efficient Na+-specific...

Two recent MCB alumni have been offered fully funded opportunities through the U.S. student Fulbright program.

Linda Birnbaum and Keith Westcott are two of the four winners of the top alumni awards from the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Paul J. Leibson, professor of immunology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and a pre-eminent researcher of NK cells died of cancer on August 6, 2007.

Anne Carpenter, MCB alumna and Imaging Platform Director for the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, was featured in a half-hour television documentary, Bold Visions: Women in Science and Technology. The television special aired on WILL-TV March 16, and on other PBS networks.

On October 3 at noon in the CLSL Auditorium (B102), the School of MCB sponsored a distinguished lecturer seminar by Susan Lindquist, PhD. Dr. Lindquist earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology from Illinois in 1971. She received the University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award in 2006 and...