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
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…
4/26/2024
We welcome Lu Gan as a new Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and resident member of the Center. Lu received his graduate training in structural biology at…
The Leventals receive the 2024 Avanti Award in Lipids
9/15/2023
Congratulations to Kandice and Ilya Levental on their outstanding achievement in receiving the prestigious 2024 AVANTI Award in Lipids from the Biophysical Society. This is truly a remarkable accomplishment that reflects…
