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.

Chen Finds Molecular Pathway

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and his colleagues discovered a novel way inflammation is regulated.

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.

James Slauch appears in PLoS ONE

New research on phagocytes by Maureen Craig and Dr. James Slauch has been published online.

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.

Xiang Makes Nanoneedle

Yang Xiang and his partners have developed a nanoneedle capable of delivering molecules directly into living cells.

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.

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).

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.

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.