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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
2/20/2025
The discovery of a surprising way yeast used to brew beer can survive starvation could open the door to new treatments for cancer. Congratulations to Dr. Ahmad Jomaa for the…
Title: Cellular Signaling by Cholesterol
9/9/2024
Speaker: Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D. Professor Department of Molecular Genetics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Hosts: Dr. Ilya Levental and Dr. Lukas Tamm Ivy Translational Bldg., 560 Ray C. Hunt…
