Huan Bao, PhD, Awarded $2 Million NIH Grant to Uncover Principles of Membrane Disruption During Cell Death

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…

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

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…

Ling Qi, PhD, and Shengyi Iris Sun, PhD, Earn $3.2 Million to Research Protein Degradation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum

4/3/2025

Congratulations to the Qi lab and the Sun lab! To read more about it see HERE

MPBP Postdoc Helen Wang in the News Highlighting Her Grant from the Alzheimer’s Association

4/3/2025

Helen Wang, PhD, Featured Across Virginia, and on TV Stations Nationally, Highlighting Her Grant from the Alzheimer’s Association Congratulations to Helen Wang of the Qi Lab! Read all about it…

Title: WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE

4/1/2025

MPBP seminar Spring 2025 Speaker: Peter Arvan M.D., Ph.D., Brehm Professor of Diabetes Research Division of Metab., Endocrinology & Diabetes University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Host: Ling Qi, Ph.D.

Title: TBD – Peter Arvan, MD, Ph.D.

3/25/2025

Fall 2017 MPBP seminar Speaker: Peter Arvan, MD, Ph.D. Brehm Professor of Diabetes Research Division of Metab., Endocrinology & Diabetes University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Host: Ling Qi, Ph.D.

Title: Pannexin isoforms in cancer regulation

3/21/2025

MPBP seminar Spring 2025 Speaker: Silvia Penuela, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Research, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology University of Western Ontario Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.

Stefanie Redemann’s Science Highlighted for UVa Cancer Ctr. Women’s History Month

3/11/2025

As highlighted on the UVA Cancer Center Facebook Page: Stefanie Redemann, PhD, investigates cellular division – the fundamental process for bodily growth, maintenance and function – to understand why it…

The Levental Lab Is Awarded A New Grant to Research Mechanisms by Which Immune Cells Fight Infection or Cancer

2/20/2025

From Medicine In Motion Congratulations to Drs. Ilya and Kandice Levental and their collaborators. Backed by a new five-year $3.3 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…