 | Dr. Jin Zhang, PMB faculty member in Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, has won the 2012 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry.
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Preston Moon (left), Austin Elam (right) | Biophysics graduate students, Preston Moon (Fleming lab) and Austin Elam (Hilser lab) were among 20 students nationwide who received the Biophysical Society's Student Research Awards at the Society's 2011 meeting.
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| Nadine Samara, PMB student in the Wolberger lab, is chosen by the 34th Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day committee to receive the Alice Showalter Reynolds Award.
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 | Dr. Jungsan Sohn joins PMB and the Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry as an assistant professor in February 2011. Dr. Sohn studies the structure and function of biological stress-sensors. |
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 | Dr. Albert Lau joins the faculty in the Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry and PMB in December 2010. Dr. Lau's research centers on computational and structural studies of neurotransmitter receptor function.
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 | Dr. Herschel Wade, a PMB faculty member in the Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, has been awarded a 2009 Beckman Young Investigators Award. Dr. Wade's research centers on molecular recognition and the engineering of ligand-activated molecular switches.
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 | Bill Hawse, PMB student in the Wolberger lab, is chosen by the 2009 Johns Hopkins Young Investigators Day committee to receive the Paul Ehrlich Award to recognize his achievements and contributions to science at Hopkins. |
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 | Jared Parker, PMB student in the Stivers lab, is selected to receive a Weintraub Award for 2009 by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.
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| Dr. Jin Zhang, PMB faculty member in Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, is a recipient of the Biophysical Society's 2009 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her contributions to the field of quantitative FRET and fluorescence imaging as applied to cell signaling.
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 | Two PMB faculty have recently published their work in the journal Nature -
Dr. Dan Leahy's article appeared in the Oct. 16, 2008 issue: McClellan et al. "The mode of Hedgehog binding to Ihog homologues is not conserved across different phyla."
Dr. Sarah Woodson's article appeared online on Sept. 10, 2008: Adilakshmi et al. "Concurrent nucleation of 16S folding and induced fit in 30S ribosome assembly." |
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photo credit: Manuel Castell | Dr. Sanjay Kumar, PMB alumni '03 and assistant professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley, is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health award honoring innovative new scientists. He is one of 31 recipients of the New Innovator Award, announced in September 2008 by NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni. Dr. Kumar's research combines approaches from biophysics, systems biology and oncology to study how cells sense and process mechanical forces in human health and disease.
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 | Dr. Scott Bailey joins the Hopkins community, and the Program in Molecular Biophysics, as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Bailey's research program focuses on structure and function studies of genome integrity. |
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photo credit: Will Kirk | Dr. Doug Barrick, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics, is honored with a 2008 Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award.
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