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
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…
