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Nov. 18, 2024
César de la Fuente receives the American Society of Microbiology’s Award for Early Career Basic Research. Tanja Mittag and Enrique M. De La Cruz are named fellows by the Biophysical Society.
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In memoriam: Horst Schulz
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In memoriam: Horst Schulz

Nov. 18, 2024

He was a professor emeritus at City College of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan whose work concentrated on increasing our understanding of mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism and an ASBMB member since 1971.

Computational and biophysical approaches to disordered proteins
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Computational and biophysical approaches to disordered proteins

Nov. 14, 2024

Rohit Pappu will receive the 2025 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences at the ASBMB Annual Meeting, April 12-15 in Chicago.

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Join the pioneers of ferroptosis at cell death conference

Nov. 13, 2024

Meet Brent Stockwell, Xuejun Jiang and Jin Ye — the co-chairs of the ASBMB’s 2025 meeting on metabolic cross talk and biochemical homeostasis research.

Helping underrepresented scientists feel seen
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Helping underrepresented scientists feel seen

Nov. 12, 2024

Benjamin Garcia will receive the ASBMB Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award at the ASBMB Annual meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.

Honors for Emr, Sundquist, Ohm and Szoo
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Honors for Emr, Sundquist, Ohm and Szoo

Nov. 11, 2024

Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist won the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. Adam Ohm and Madeline Szoo have been awarded scholarships by the Fellowship Board of Tau Beta Pi.

In memoriam: Bengt Samuelsson
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In memoriam: Bengt Samuelsson

Nov. 11, 2024

He was a Nobel laureate, a professor at the Karolinska Institute, a lipid biochemist and an ASBMB member for almost 50 years.

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Brain-on-a-chip tech powers neuroscience research
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Brain-on-a-chip tech powers neuroscience research

Nov. 4, 2024

MOSAIC scholar Brian O'Grady has engineered a biomimetic model of the brain’s blood vessels to help tackle glioblastoma.

Being a whole person outside of work
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Being a whole person outside of work

Nov. 1, 2024

Creating art, community service, physical exercise, theater and music — four scientists talk about the activities that bring them joy.

‘We’re thankful for our reviewers’
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‘We’re thankful for our reviewers’

Oct. 31, 2024

Meet some of the scientists who review manuscripts for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Lipid Research and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.

In memoriam: Bruce Ames
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In memoriam: Bruce Ames

Oct. 28, 2024

He invented a cheap and easy way to assess mutagenicity that helped identify many environmental and industrial carcinogens; it became known as the Ames test.

Honors for DebBurman, Margaryan and Santiago–Frangos
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Honors for DebBurman, Margaryan and Santiago–Frangos

Oct. 28, 2024

The Council on Undergraduate Research honors Shubhik DebBurman with a mentoring award. Anush Margaryan wins a Projects for Peace grant to teach refugees in Armenia. UPenn names Andrew Santiago–Frangos an endowed assistant professor.

In memoriam: William L. Smith
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In memoriam: William L. Smith

Oct. 21, 2024

He served as associate editor of both the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Lipid Research and was an ASBMB member for more than 40 years.

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