Please find our Fall 2024 “Benchmarks” Newsletter for the Department of Biochemistry downloadable below. Visit our newsletters page for more or to manage your subscription preferences.
Columbia University will award the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how...
20 Outstanding postdoctoral scholars will visit the University on Sept. 26-27 to share their exciting science during the 2-day Postdoctoral Rising Stars Symposium.
Among the recipients of NIH research funding was the university’s CHEETAH Center for Structural Biology of HIV Infection Restriction and Viral Dynamics.
Biochemistry Associate Professor Helena Safavi and her amazing team describe their recent work with venomous cone snails and their potential to improve diabetes medication.
Biochemistry Faculty, Minna Roh-Jonhson has been awarded the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research for her exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology. Congratulations Minna!
Biochem faculty, Keren Hilgendorf presents at the Vitae 2024 on her research into how communication between cells shifts the balance between number and size of fat cells, with important consequences.
Biochemistry Faculty, Tyler Starr has been named a 2024 Searle Scholar for his research into the evolution and inhibition of zoonotic bat coronaviruses. Congratulations Tyler!
We are very sorry to note the passing of Professor Emeritus LeRoy R. Kuehl. LeRoy was a very popular teacher of first-year medical students in the years when the department...
Our department will be hosting our third Graduate Student Rising Stars Symposium, in partnership with the Neurobiology Department and the Diabetes & Metabolism Research Center.
Jared Rutter, PhD, professor of biochemistry, and Kevin Hicks, PhD, research instructor of biochemistry, at the University of Utah, received $1.8 million to comprehensively catalog how molecules involved in metabolism...
Adam Hughes, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, was featured in Scientific American for his lab's research on vacuolar acidity in yeast cells and it's connection to mitochondrial dysfunction and aging.