
The Louis V. Avioli Founders Award honors an ASBMR member for fundamental contributions to bone and mineral basic research.
Congratulations Dr. Pike.

The award recognizes young investigators who submit top-ranking abstracts to the 2012 ASBMR annual Meeting.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award will be given annually to a scientist who encourages effective teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology through his/her own teaching, leadership in education, writing, educational research, mentoring or public enlightenment.

Ivan Rayment has been appointed to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation named professorships in 2012.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, led by Aseem Ansari, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries."

James Ntambi has been elected to the Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences and is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.

Dr. J. Wesley Pike has been awarded the Career Award for Vitamin D Research at the 15th Vitamin D Workshop.

A new company co-founded by professor Raines achieves top honor in clean-energy competition

A testament to a forward-thinking collaboration between the sciences and arts.

Recipients of the $200,000 Shaw prize are chosen by a panel of prominent scientists from around the country. The annual awards provide needed support to young scientists engaged in groundbreaking research in the fields of genetics, cell biology and cancer research at critical stages in their careers.
Congratulations Dr. Pagliarini.

His contribution is summarized by student Zeeshan Ul Haq:
“I believe Dan has the strongest interpersonal skills of any staff member I've ever interacted with, and within the biochemistry department, his reputation speaks for itself. Dan is a unique nominee in that he has created a number of new, effective, and creative incentives for meeting student needs including: the CALS and L&S Science Exploration Workshops, a newsletter for students in Biochemistry, and the new advising system in the Biochemistry department. Dan is also a diehard contributor to the Undergraduate...

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Benjamin Knight
Kellie Kolb
Nathan Menninga
Ryan Sacotte
Yuliang Sun
Michael Voss
Amy Yan
Congratulations!

Congratulations winners:
Josue Baeze (Denu lab)
Ginny Kincaid (Kiessling lab)
Erin Ronanye (Cox lab)
Corey Nemec (Ansari lab)
Kelly Stecker (Sussman lab)
Chrissy Petzold (Keck lab)

The Louis and Elsa Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships were established by the estate of Elsa Thomsen and are designated to support graduate students who have established an outstanding research record.
Congratulations Justin (Fox Lab) a recipient of this year’s award.