Faculty Highlights
Whiteley, assistant professor of biochemistry, has won a NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which is reserved for 鈥渆xceptionally creative early career scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects.鈥 It is a $1.5 million, five-year grant.
The NIH recently awarded Dr. Joseph Falke with a 5-year MIRA / R35 grant to continue their research on a membrane-based signaling circuit central to leukocyte chemotaxis and many human cancers. The grant ($2.0M total costs) begins January 1,
The Falke lab's recent publication "Single Molecule Studies Reveal Regulatory Interactions between Master Kinases PDK1, AKT1 and PKC" was selected by the聽Biophysical Journal editors as "New and Notable".
BioFrontiers faculty continue to be influential in their fields. Clarivate Analytics identified Roy Parker and Jason Burdick in the top 1% of highly cited researchers in their field for 2021. Highly Cited Researchers鈩 have
Roy Parker of Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute, alongside Rebecca Maloy of the College of Music, have been selected to receive 2021-2022 Distinguished Research Lectureships.
Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger win Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment
