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CMCP Faculty Herve Agaisse and Peter Kasson named 2021 Pinn Scholars

3/31/2021

Two Center faculty members have been named Pin Scholars for 2021. Pinn Scholars are mid-career faculty selected on the basis of their scientific expertise and research productivity, and contributions to…

UVA Today article about Amanda Ward’s Research

11/11/2020

Our very best congratulations to Amanda Ward of the Tamm Lab, who's paper recently published in JBC is getting recognition in the press. Here is a link to the article…

Ai Lab develops improvement to fluorescent biosensors widely used in scientific and medical research.

10/20/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Huiwang Ai and his lab, on their new red-shifted biosensor paper published in Nature Chemical Biology and  highlighted in UVA Today by Science feature writer Josh Barney.…

Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science

7/20/2020

Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science. Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer produced on earth. Cellulose synthase is an trimeric integral membrane protein that stiches…

CMCP Faculty Dr. P. Todd Stukenberg in the news: New Organelle That Helps Prevent Cancer Discovered Inside Our Cells

10/22/2019

October 21, 2019   Written  by  Josh Barney   Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new organelle inside our cells that helps to prevent cancer…

Center member Dr. Ed Egelman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

5/6/2019

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ed Egelman to his election to the National Academy of Sciences. Ed has been a pioneer in electron microscopy, cryo-EM and the analysis of…

Leading Science Organization Adds Five More From UVA as Fellows – Including two from CMCP

11/28/2018

Our Center Director and Chair of Molecular Physiology, Dr. Lukas Tamm (far right), and colleagues Dr. Wladek Minor (left) and Center member and Chair of Cell Biology, Dr. Doug DeSimone…

CMCP Congratulates Three American Heart Association Fellowship Winners!

5/11/2018

CMCP faculty members, Dr. Swapnil Sonkusare and Dr. Lukas Tamm, have the pleasure to announce winners of prestigious American Heart Association Fellowships. From the Sonkusare Lab, Dr. Kwangseok Hong, received…