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Woese to Recieve Achievement Award
Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese will be honored this year with the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on microbe diversity.
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Chen Finds Molecular Pathway
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and his colleagues discovered a novel way inflammation is regulated.
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Imlay featured in ASBMB Today
Professor of microbiology James Imlay is featured in the latest issue of ASBMB Today for his work on the mechanisms of oxidative damage.
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James Slauch appears in PLoS ONE
New research on phagocytes by Maureen Craig and Dr. James Slauch has been published online.
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Kemper Published in Genes and Development
Jongsook Kim Kemper authored a paper on how a molecule is controlled to regulate cholesterol conversion into bile acids.
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Xiang Makes Nanoneedle
Yang Xiang and his partners have developed a nanoneedle capable of delivering molecules directly into living cells.
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The biochemistry department welcomes Susan Martinis
Dr. Martinis earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois and completed postdoctoral research at M.I.T.
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Molecular research suggests shift needed in how some drugs are created
Michael V. Lasker, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the U of I's College of Medicine in Urbana, and Satish Nair, department of biochemistry, used x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of mouse interleukin-1 receptor-associataed kinase-4 (IRAK-4).
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Researchers seeking alternative to surgery for brain cancers
Dave Kranz and colleagues won a $450,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study immunotherapies as a safe alternative to surgery for brain cancer.
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The biochemistry faculty welcomes Lin-Feng Chen
Dr. Chen recently completed his postdoctoral research at Gladstone Institute of Immunology and Virology, University of California, San Francisco.