Congratulations to Helen Wang, PhD, K99/R00 award
10/16/2025
Huilun (Helen) Wang, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Qi Lab in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics (MPBP), was awarded the highly competitive K99/R00 Pathway to…
Seham Ebrahim, PhD, Awarded $2.4 Million NIH R01 Grant to Advance Male Fertility Research
9/18/2025
Seham Ebrahim, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and the Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology. Dr. Ebrahim has been awarded a…
Jomaa Lab Researches Protein Lipidation to Better Understand the Onset of Heart Disease
9/11/2025
The work, recently published in the EMBO Journal, uncovers the molecular mechanism by which the nascent polypeptide-associated complex (NAC) recruits the enzyme (N-myristoyltransferase 2) NMT2 to modify emerging proteins as…
Sonkusare Lab Discovers and Targets a Novel Mechanism Driving High Blood Pressure in Obesity
9/4/2025
Sonkusare Lab discovers and targets a novel mechanism driving high blood pressure in obesity. This groundbreaking study is published in Circulation Research. Read more
Title: Regulation of intracellular and extracellular lipolysis
8/26/2025
Dates: Thursday, September 18, 2025 Speaker: Sander Kersten, PhD Institute: Schleifer Family Professor and Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University Host: Ling Qi, PhD, Chair, Molecular Physiology &…
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…
5/29/2025
Congratulations to Huan Bao who was awarded a five-year $2 million R35 grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project titled “Designer Nanodiscs to Probe…
5/8/2025
Seham Ebrahim, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, was awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institutes…
Congratulations to Two Winners of the Outstanding Student Award in our Department.
4/17/2025
Winners in our department: Physiology: Elina Zhou who works in the Qi lab, and Biophysics: Katelyn Kraichely who works in the Tamm Lab. Congratulations Elina and Katie! The Biomedical Sciences…
4/3/2025
Congratulations to the Qi lab and the Sun lab! To read more about it see HERE
