Biochemistry News
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Medical Student Among 2022 President's Community Engagement Awardees
Raquel Valdes, an M2 student collaborating with Dr. Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen's lab, will be among the honorees at the 2022 President's Community Engagement Awards.
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Biochemistry Lab Appears on Canadian Public Radio to Discuss Sugar Substitutes
The research of Laura Danner and the Dr. Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen lab was featured on an episode of Canadian Public Radio's Radio Active show, discussing sugar substitutes.
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Researchers Uncover How Non-Nutritive Sweeteners Disrupt Liver Detoxification
In laboratory experiments, sweeteners impaired protein that rids the body of toxins and processes drugs.
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Dr. Jennifer Stancill Receives 2021 Excellence in Science Postdoc Award
Dr. Jennifer Stancill, postdoctoral fellow in Dr. John Corbett's lab in the Department of Biochemistry, has earned the 2021 Excellence in Science Postdoc award.
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Two Biochemistry Researchers Receive 2021 Women in Science Awards
Laura Danner, Graduate Student in the Olivier-Van Stichelen Lab, and Dr. Daisy Sahoo, Professor of Medicine, have received 2021 Women in Science Awards from the Women in Science Advisory Committee.
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Department of Biochemistry Members Receive Teacher Recognition Pins for 2020-2021 Academic Year
Drs. Ravi Misra, Jong-In Park, and Rachel Jones Lipinski have received 2020-2021 Medical Student Teacher award pins from the Curriculum and Evaluation Committee.
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Department of Biochemistry Faculty & Students Recognized at Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting
Several faculty and students from the Department of Biochemistry represented MCW and were recognized during the recent Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting in San Diego.
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Biochemistry Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Among Graduate School Poster Session Award Winners
Darcy Knaack and Jennifer Stancill, PhD were among those chosen to receive awards from the 31st Annual Graduate School Poster Session.
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Winner of the MCW Postdoctoral Fellow Paper of the Year Award
Punashi Dutta, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, was selected as the winner of the MCW Postdoctoral Fellow Paper of the Year Award for the paper entitled, “KPT-330 Prevents Aortic Valve Calcification via a Novel C/EBPβ Signaling Pathway."
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Gage Stuttgen, Biochemistry Graduate Student has Manuscript Published in Endocrinology Research Journal
Gage Stuttgen, Biochemistry Graduate Student, along with his mentor Dr. Daisy Sahoo, authored "FFAR4: A New Player in Cardiometabolic Disease?", which was published in the August edition of Endocrinology.
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Biochemistry Graduate Student Selected as Featured Researcher at CSHL Meeting
Chandler McElrath, Biochemistry Graduate Student, was selected as Featured Researcher at CSHL's Ubiquitin, Autophagy, and Disease April meeting.
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Acacia Dishman, Biochemistry and MSTP Student, Wins Paper of the Season Award
Acacia Dishman, fourth-year PhD candidate and Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) student in the Department of Biochemistry, won the spring Paper of the Season Award from the MCW Graduate School.
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Nancy Dahms, PhD, Appointed to Scientific Advisory Board of Biotech Company M6P Therapeutics
Nancy Dahms, PhD, professor of Biochemistry at MCW, has been appointed to the scientific advisory board for Missouri-based biotechnology company M6P Therapeutics.
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Fabry disease clinical trial led by Dr. Medin shows promising results
The results of a first-in-the-world clinical trial of a gene therapy for Fabry disease were published today in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
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MCW Researcher Develops Breakthrough Protein Analysis to Enable Drug Discovery, Clinical Analyses
Published in Nature Methods, Dr. Jesse G. Meyer, a new professor in the Biochemistry Department, has developed a groundbreaking protein analysis technique that enables quantification of proteins in seconds instead of the usual tens of minutes or hours.
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MCW Researchers Publish Mortalin/HSPA9 Targeting Study in Oncogene
Dr. Jong-In Park's lab in the Department of Biochemistry has published a study in Oncogene concerning Mortalin/HSPA9 targeting selectively induces KRAS tumor cell death by perturbing mitochondrial membrane permeability.
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MCW Researcher Contributes to Paper Published on Combination Therapy of Dabrafenib/Trametinib for Tumors w/ BRAFV600E Mutations
Early data suggested that responses to therapy may be histology dependent, because BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer demonstrated a relative resistance to therapy.
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Renowned Scientist Joins MCW Cancer Center as New Director
Gustavo Leone, PhD, also named as holder of Dr. Glenn R. and Nancy A. Linnerson Endowed Chair for Cancer Research.
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Cracking the Code of a Shapeshifting Protein
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin discovered the molecular basis for how an immune system protein called XCL1 evolved.
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Two Biochemistry Researchers Receive 2020 Women in Science Awards
Please join us in congratulating the Biochemistry Recipients of 2020 MCW Women in Science Awards: Eugenia Wulff from the Olivier-Van Stichelen Lab, and Dr. Jennifer Stancill from the Corbett Lab.
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