Department News 2021

September 2021, NAS Honor. Dr. Christine M. Dunham Named a Kavli Fellow by National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

September 2021, Promotion. Dr. Christine M. Dunham Promoted to Professor of Biochemistry.

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

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

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

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

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