Huiwang Ai, PhD Awarded Two Grants From the NIH for $5.3 Million

10/20/2022

Huiwang Ai, Ph.D., was honored in the UVa Medicine in Motion newsletter for receiving two new R01 grants totaling $5.3M. We congratulate you Huiwang!

Congratulations to Anne Kenworthy for receiving the Mildred Cohen Award in Biological Chemistry.

7/6/2022

The award recognizes and honors scientists at all stages of their careers who have made substantial advances in understanding biological chemistry using innovative physical approaches. Anne’s work beautifully embodies the…

Congratulations to Graduate Students Bena Chan, Luis Real Hernandez, and Jeremi Kuklewicz, to be named 2022 Wagner Fellows

7/5/2022

Please congratulate the 2022 Wagner Fellows in our department! Wagner Fellowships are awarded each year to some of the most promising graduate students in the BIMS programs. Sze Ham "Bena"…

Congratulations to Jochen Zimmer and his lab on their publication in Nature

6/27/2022

Congratulations to Jochen Zimmer and his lab on the publication of the structure and mechanism of substrate recognition of hyaluronan synthase in Nature (). Hyaluronan is a ubiquitous acidic glycosaminoglycan…

Design and Synthesis of Small Molecules which stabilize Auto-inhibition of the transcription factors ERG/FLI1 to inhibit binding of EWS-ERG/EWS-FLI1 to DNA

3/9/2022

Archive Spring 2022 Speaker: Kiran Srimath Tirumala, Ph.D., Bushweller Lab Host: Dr. John Bushweller

Congratulating Ahmad Jomaa on the publication of his latest research article in Science

2/25/2022

We congratulate Assistant Professor, Ahmad Jomaa, for his latest research article published in the journal Science. Mechanism of signal sequence handover from NAC to SRP on ribosomes during ER-protein targeting…

Swapnil Sonkusare receives the 2022 ASPET Mid Career Award in Cardiovascular Physiology

2/18/2022

Congratulations to Swapnil Sonkusare for receiving the 2022 ASPET Mid Career Award in Cardiovascular Physiology. Dr. Sonkusare joins a distinguished group of award winners who are recognized for their excellence…

Jochen Zimmer Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

9/23/2021

We congratulate Jochen Zimmer for being named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator on September 23, 2021. The HHMI announcement can be found here.  Jochen is one of 33 outstanding…

Peter Kasson named 2021 Pinn Scholar for his timely project “Protecting against future pandemic viruses that don’t yet infect humans.”

3/31/2021

Pinn Scholars are mid-career faculty selected on the basis of their scientific expertise and research productivity, and contributions to the School of Medicine and to the greater research community, including…

Ai Lab develops improvement to fluorescent biosensors widely used in scientific and medical research.

10/20/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Huiwang Ai and his lab, on their new red-shifted biosensor paper published in Nature Chemical Biology and  highlighted in UVA Today by Science feature writer Josh Barney.…