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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  

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…

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…