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Jeffrey Vinokur Receives WAA 2024 Forward Award

Posted on September 4, 2024

Vinokur co-launched Generation Genetics, an education media company that creates science and math videos for elementary students.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards, education

Elle Grevstad Receives CALS 2024 Distinguished Recent Grad Award

Posted on August 28, 2024

The award, established in 2024, recognizes graduates for contributions to their field or public service.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards, BOC, CALS

Biochemistry alum helps sustain ‘another level of molecular clarity’

Posted on August 4, 2022

Less than a decade ago, UW researchers began to gather and assemble the components of a powerful, advanced imaging technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) that would allow them to observe the structures of some of …

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, alumni profile, giving back

Liana Lamont receives Taylor Teaching Award

Posted on March 7, 2022

The UW-Madison Department of Chemistry presented the 2022 James W. Taylor Teaching Award to Liana Lamont, a former biochemistry graduate student who received her Ph.D. in 2006. Lamont was a member of the Kimble Lab. …

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards

Biochemistry alum awarded 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine

Posted on March 11, 2021

Biochemistry alum Lynne Maquat has been awarded the 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. The international award is given to outstanding scientists from around the world for achievements that benefit mankind. Maquat was a graduate student …

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards

Biochemistry alumnus combines interest in science, humanities in career as patent agent

Posted on July 18, 2019

Dan Blasiole, a Ph.D. alum of the biochemistry department and the Attie Lab, now works at a law firm in Madison, Wisconsin.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Profile

UW changes lives: Campus-born fertility company seeks to improve women’s health care, Wisconsin economy

Posted on June 4, 2019

What started as a side project in a laboratory in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry is now a successful Wisconsin startup that’s closer than ever to giving women a way to easily track their hormone levels and help overcome difficulties conceiving a child.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, hormone monitoring, industry, Profile, Research

Former postdoc collects accolades as professor at Penn State

Posted on March 7, 2019

For Pennsylvania State University professor Squire Booker, scientific inspiration comes from elucidating the “new chemical language” behind novel biochemical reactions. It’s inspiration he picked up during this time as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biochemistry working with now-Emeritus Professor Perry Frey in the 1990s.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, postdocs, Profile

Metabolism scientist wins prestigious AAAS fellowship

Posted on February 7, 2019

For Danielle Lohman, her passion for science policy began when she heard a Ph.D. chemist speak at a career conference about the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellowship at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards, IPiB, Metabolism, postdocs, Profile, science policy

Graduate alumna recognized as trailblazer for RNA research, women in science

Posted on December 7, 2018

Lynne Maquat says she was shy when she first started as a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry, but since graduating with her Ph.D. in 1979, she’s become a force in the field of RNA research.

Posted in NewsTagged Alumni, Awards, Profile
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