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Dr. Herschel WadeDr. 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 HawseBill 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.
Jared Parker

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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Jin ZhangDr. 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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collage of Nature coversTwo 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."
Sanjay Kumar
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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Scott Bailey

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.

Doug Barrick
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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