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Roth Leads $26.9 Million Project to Create Better Psychiatric Medications

June 18, 2020
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team of internationally acclaimed researchers led by ºÚÁÏ꿉۪s Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, aims to create new medications to effectively and rapidly treat depression, anxiety, and substance abuse without major side effects.

Ubiquitin chain-elongating enzyme UBE2S activates the RING E3 ligase APC/C for substrate priming

May 22, 2020
Congratulations to Pharmacology graduate student Raquel C. Martinez Chacin, who is first author on a paper published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Journal! The paper by the Brown Lab in collaboration with the Emanuele Lab, Jean Cook lab, and other researchers at ºÚÁÏÍø and the Research Institute of Molecular...

A New Tool to Map the Flow of Info within Living Cells

May 19, 2020
ºÚÁÏÍø researchers led by Klaus Hahn, PhD, John Sondek, PhD, and Daniel Marston, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern reveal the inner workings of cellular communication and processes important for cell migration and potentially metastasis.

Schisler Collaborates with NASA to Study COVID-19, Protein Correlation

May 14, 2020
An interdisciplinary research working group on space biology formed by NASA has transformed into the Coronavirus International Research Team, which includes Jonathan Schisler, PhD, at the ºÚÁÏÍø.

Pharmacology Launches 1st Annual Mental Health Awareness Week for PHCO Students

May 13, 2020
In recognition of May being National Mental Health Awareness Month, Pharmacology is holding its 1st Annual Mental Health Awareness Week for PHCO Students, Monday, May 18 - Friday, May 22, with different topics and facilitators for each day's session.

Kirsten Bryant Selected as 2020 Forbeck Scholar

May 11, 2020
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kirsten Bryant, who has been selected as a 2020 Forbeck Scholar!

We Welcome Amanda Hall, Our New Wellness Counselor for BBSP!

May 8, 2020
Welcome to Amanda Hall, who is our new Student Wellness Counselor for BBSP, taking over for Alli Schad,who is now working primarily with medical students.

Researchers identify protein involved in reactivation of virus linked to cancer

May 7, 2020
Researchers led by Blossom Damania, PhD, reported that Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, a virus linked to three human cancers, uses a protein produced by its human host to come out of hiding and reactivate.

Congratulations to Blossom Damania on Being Elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

May 7, 2020
Blossom Damania, PhD, was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) April 23! Her research focuses on virus-associated cancers, cancer biology, signal transduction and immunology.

Scientists Reveal Host- SARS-CoV-2 Protein Targets for Drug Repurposing

April 30, 2020
The lab of Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, was part of a large research project led by the University of California-San Francisco to identify viral proteins and virus-host protein interactions that could become important drug targets to treat people with COVID-19.