New Faculty Appointments
- Christopher Barbieri – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Ping Chi – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Noah Dephoure - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
- Lukas Dow – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Matthew Greenblatt - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Jason Huse – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue - Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Bjorn Kafsack - Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
- Kayvan Keshari – Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
- Luis Parada - Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Wen Shen – Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Jessica Tyler - Professor of Molecular Biology
Career Development Awards and Individual Honors
- Dr. David Lyden (CDB) - Chaired the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas' annual meeting hosted in Madrid, Spain (Sept. 28 - Sept. 30 2015)
- Dr. Scott Blanchard (PBSB/BSB) - Delivered the keynote address at New York University's Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Student Symposium (June 5 2015)
- Dr. Jeremy Dittman (BSB, NEURO) - Received the Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Research Scholar Award in Intercampus Collaborations (May 13 2015).
- Dr. Todd Evans (CDB) - Delivered keynote lecture "Building a Translational Research Program" at the Endocrine Society's Translational Research Workshop in San Diego (March 5 2015)
- Dr. Olaf Andersen (MD-PHD) - Appointed to a three-year term as chair of the Biophysical Society's Publications Committee, effective Feb. 11.
- Dr. Katherine Hajjar (CDB) - Received the 2015 George Papanicolaou Award from theHellenic Medical Society (May 5 2015)
- Dr. David P. Hajjar (BSB, CDB) - Delivered the Jefferson Science Fellow Distinguished Lecture at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. (April 22 2015).
- Dr. Lewis C. Cantley (BSB, CDB) - Awarded the third annual Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and its open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Molecular Medicine.
- Dr. Ronald Crystal (PBSB, CDB) - Invited to Drexel University College of Medicine as the Robert F. Johnston, MD Memorial Visiting Professor (October 22 2015)
- Dr. Olga Boudker (PBSB) - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (May 19 2015)