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Swapnil Sonkusare appointed as a Pinn Scholar- Congratulations!

7/3/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Swapnil Sonkusare who has been appointed as a Pinn Scholar, class of 2025 The Pinn Scholars program is named in honor of the extraordinary career of Vivian…

Seham Ebrahim, Bechara Kachar (NIH), and Michael Purdy’s major collaborative breakthrough powered by MEMC

6/6/2025

New Organelle Discovered: UVA and NIH Researchers Identify ‘Hemifusomes’ as a Key to Cellular Recycling In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers from UVA's Center for Membrane &…

Congratulations to Seham Ebrahim, Awarded $2 Million NIH-R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

5/8/2025

Seham Ebrahim, PhD, Earns $2 Million NIH-R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award May 6, 2025 by jta6n@virginia.edu Seham Ebrahim, PhD Seham Ebrahim, PhD, an assistant professor in the Center for Membrane…

Levental lab publishes ground-breaking paper in Cell on lipid and cholesterol asymmetry in cell membranes.

4/10/2025

This important paper published in Cell  challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid…

Title: Cholesterol as a Mediator of Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease

3/17/2025

Seminar Date: Monday, March 17, 2025 | Seminar Time: 12:00 p.m.

Center Director Dr. Lukas Tamm Receives the Research Mentor Award- Congratulations for this well deserved honor!

2/20/2025

Research Mentor Award Lukas Tamm, Harrison Distinguished Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, and Director of the Center For Membrane & Cell Physiology Lukas Tamm’s focus on creating a…

Levental Lab Receives a New Award to Study Discoveries of Immunity Responses to Cancer

2/20/2025

As summarized by UVA Medicine In Motion: Backed by a new five-year $3.3 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Ilya Levental, PhD, a professor in…