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November 9, 2009
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Professor Cox Honored
Michael Cox, Professor of Biochemistry, will receive the Regents' 17th annual Teaching Excellence Award. It is the highest recognition bestowed on members of UW System's faculty and academic staff for outstanding career achievements in teaching.
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October 27, 2009
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Takashi Higurashi Earns Award at International Congress on Stress Responses
Dr. Takashi Higurashi from the Craig lab was awarded the best poster award and an oral presentation opportunity at the Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine Congress held in Sapporo, Japan. Congratulations Takashi!
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October 22, 2009
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Project Crystall Brings Middle-School Students to UW-Madison Lab
Professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood Campus School middle-school science teacher Daniel Toomey are bridging the gap between middle-school science and groundbreaking research, and get young adolescents excited about chemistry before high school.
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October 15, 2009
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James Ntambi inducted as a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences
James Ntambi has been inducted as a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (FUNAS) in recognition of his excellent contribution to science and his commitment to promoting science in Uganda.
For more information on the Uganda National Academy click FUNAS
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October 13, 2009
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Mark Meyer Earns Young Investigator Award
Pike laboratory member Mark Meyer was recently honored as a Young Investigator at the 14th Annual Workshop for Vitamin D in Brugge, Belgium. Congratulations Mark!
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September 15, 2009
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The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Award for Distinguished Service to Hector DeLuca
Hector F. DeLuca, Madison, Wis., professor of biochemistry at
UW-Madison, is internationally recognized for his contributions to
human health. He's played a decisive role in the development and
introduction of the natural hormone and related compounds as effective
new drugs for the treatment of disease. Six compounds discovered and
developed in DeLuca's laboratory are in use worldwide for the treatment
of such conditions as vitamin D-resistant rickets, hypoparathyroidism,
renal osteodystrophy, psoriasis and osteoporosis. Additional findings
from DeLuca's lab are being explored as potential treatments for
diabetes, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Beyond the lab, DeLuca has
twice served as department chair, advised numerous academic and
industry boards, and accumulated more than 50 honors and awards over
his career.
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September 11, 2009
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Professor Ron Raines Wins The 2010 Repligen Award From ACS
We're delighted to report that Professor Ron Raines has won the 2010 Repligen Award from the American Chemical Society. The Repligen Award is a lifetime achievement award for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of biological processes. Ron is the 25th winner of the award, and the youngest to date. He will be honored at the 240th ACS national meeting in Boston
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September 10, 2009
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Pike Lab Members Earn ASBMR Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Paul Goetsch and Dr. Seong Min Lee for their recognition at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 31st Annual meeting.
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September 10, 2009
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Professor Weibel Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program will identify and engage
rising research stars in junior faculty positions in academia and
expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs and DARPA's program
development process. The YFA program will provide high-impact funding
to these rising stars early in their careers in order to develop their
research ideas in the context of DoD needs. The long term goal is to
develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers, and
mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion
of their career on DoD and National Security issues.
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August 19, 2009
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James Ntambi: Scientist of the Week
What is the best way to encourage science in Africa?
Some African scientists come to the United States to train and then return to their home countries to teach and perform research.
James Ntambi took a different approach - after receiving his Ph.D. he remained in the United States and now leads a lab at the University of Wisconsin, where he trains African scientists and teaches Americans what life is like in Uganda.
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August 10, 2009
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Department mourns loss of faculty member
Professor Emeritis Ross Inman, passed away Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Ross was a faculty member in Biochem and the Institute for Molecular Virology for more than 42 years, retiring from active science only last December. Ross conducted his research at
Bock Labs and made major contributions in the field of DNA research.
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July 20, 2009
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Perry Frey Awarded The Gordon Hammes ACS Biochemistry Lectureship
Professor Perry Frey, whose penetrating analyses of enzyme mechanisms have captivated the scientific community for more than 45 years, has been selected to present the second Gordon Hammes ACS Biochemistry Lecture at the 2010 ACS National meeting. The choice of Professor Frey recognizes his work on many problems, which has expanded the frontiers of the field of enzyme mechanisms.
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June 23, 2009
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Carb synthesis sheds light on promising tuberculosis drug target
A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into
long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target
new medicines against tuberculosis.
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June 16, 2009
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Chris Mayne Earns Young Investigator Award
Dr. Chris Mayne, from the Hayes laboratory, won the Young Investigator Award at the recent international ACTRIMS (Americas Committee for treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations Chris!
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May 21, 2009
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Tom Record Recipient of the 2009 Hugh M. Huffman Award
To be awarded at the 64th Calorimetry Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 28-July 2. Congratulations Dr. Record.
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May 13, 2009
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Joe Binder Recognized for Biofuels Advance
In recognition of the earth-friendly biofuel technology he helped
develop, Joe has been
selected to receive a prestigious national award from the American
Chemical Society.
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April 15, 2009
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Kamaluddin Ahmad Distinguished Graduate Scholarship
Gift aims to build bridge to Madison for Bangladeshi scientists
There was no well-worn path leading the late Kamaluddin Ahmad to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's biochemistry department, but come he did. Born and raised in a family of modest means in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Ahmad excelled at the University of Dhaka and then traveled to Madison for his graduate studies, receiving his Ph.D. in 1949. He then returned to Bangladesh, where he tackled some of the country's worst nutrition problems, founding and developing the University of Dhaka's biochemistry and pharmacy departments and its Institute of Nutrition and Food Science along the way.
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April 13, 2009
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2009 CALS faculty and staff awards
Congratulations to Biochem recipients:
Excellence in Research
Fariba Assadi-Porter
WALSAA Outstanding Advisor Award
David Nelson
Excellence in International Activities Award
James Ntambi
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April 10, 2009
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Professor Weibel earns service award
Douglas Weibel is the recipient of the 2009 UW-Madison Research-Service Grant Award.
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April 10, 2009
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John Leonard awarded Herfurth Kubly Award
Congratulations to John Leonard, Biochemistry undergrad and member of the Ansari Laboratory, for runner-up honor in the Theodore Herfurth and Teddy Kubly Awards for Initiative and Efficiency.
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April 2, 2009
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Sean McMaster named Goldwater Scholar
A Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to Sean McMaster, a junior Biochemistry major, on the basis of academic merit.
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February 26, 2009
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Ron Raines receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
Dr. Raines has provided fundamental insight into the stability of collagen and other proteins; discovered an RNA-cleaving enzyme that is a clinical anti-cancer agent; and developed processes to synthesize proteins and convert biomass into fuels and chemicals.
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February 23, 2009
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Faculty recognized by American Academy of Microbiology
Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 72 scientists from around the world who have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Elected as fellows are Ann Palmenberg, a virologist and UW-Madison professor of biochemistry, and M. Thomas Record, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Professor Emeritus William Reznikoff has also been named a fellow.
American Academy of Microbiology fellows are elected annually through a highly selective peer-review process. Election is based on scientific achievement and a record of original contribution that has advanced the field.
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February 13, 2009
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In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.
A multi-institutional team of researchers has deciphered the complete
genetic sequences of all of the world's 99 known strains of human
rhinovirus, the viruses responsible for the common cold. The sequences
provide a detailed blueprint for the virus, showing how new strains
develop and revealing pressure points that may lead to new antiviral
drugs. Here, a rhinovirus particle at atomic resolution is superimposed
over a representation of the RNA molecule that encodes the virus genome.
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February 11, 2009
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Two-step chemical process turns raw biomass into biofuel
Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material.
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