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Department of Biochemistry

News Archives 2021

December 2021: Dr. Homa Ghalei Highlighted in RNA Society, 2021.

October 2021: Assistant Professor Dr. Bo Liang Receives SOM Hidden Gem Award.

August 2021: Biochemistry North Wing Renovation Complete

July 2021: Dr. Sohail Khoshnevis is promoted to Assistant Professor of Biochemistry.

July 2021: Dr. Xu Liu in the Ortlund Lab received the 2021 American Heart Association Career Development Award.

July 2021: The Ortlund Lab published a paper in "Nucleic Acids Research".

July 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Filipp Frank, Dr. Xu Liu, and Prof. Ortlund on their recent publication in PNAS, “Glucocorticoid receptor condensates link DNA-dependent receptor dimerization and transcriptional transactivation.”

July 2021: The Liang Lab is awarded the 2021 American Lung Association Innovation Award.

May 2021: Postdoc Brandon Franklin Young in the Liang Lab Named 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fellow of the Postdoctoral Enrichment Program (PDEP)

January 2021: Congratulations to the Ortlund Lab on being awarded a Lilly Research Award Program (LRAP) grant from Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals to pursue the structure and function of LRH-1 modulators.

January 2021: Congratulations to the Xu Liu on being awarded a grant from the Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne’s. Award title: "Vamorolone and DMD heart: Elucidating the molecular mechanism of action as a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist".

January 2021: Congratulations to the Ortlund Lab for their publication in Nat Chem Biol. titled, "Chemical systems biology reveals mechanisms of glucocorticoid receptor signaling".