The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) was awarded a T32 Predoctoral Training Grant from the National Institutes of Health. The award provides a total of $4.8 million over five years to support 20 doctoral students from across campus, including biochemistry.
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Students recognized by NSF
Three students in the Integrated Program in Biochemistry have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program grants.
Biochemistry faculty advance diabetes research
A UW2020 Round 6 project awarded to assistant professor Judi Simcox will establish two new research core facilities, including an advanced lipidomics platform, to accelerate diabetes and metabolism research at UW–Madison.
IPiB faculty collaboration results in grant that benefits graduate students and research
An NIH grant awarded to biochemistry professor Mike Cox and biomolecular chemistry professor James Keck will enable the groups to collaborate to study the creation and repair of DNA gaps, further pushing their research and opportunities available to their students.
Biochemistry affiliate works to develop new bioengineering strategy
Andrew Buller, professor of chemistry at UW-Madison and affiliate of the Department of Biochemistry, is working to develop methods to create new protein building blocks in living systems. This chemical research, recently recognized with a $2.2 million grant from NIH, could make these processes more affordable for and accessible to scientists with expertise in other backgrounds.
Woonghee Lee of Markley Lab earns grant to improve NMR computation
Woonghee Lee in the lab of biochemistry professor John Markley plans to improve data analysis for the burgeoning technique of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. Lee’s work will entail a long list of software development. He and his group will develop, test, perfect, and release a full automation and visualization system.
Fox, Ralph labs to use DOE grant to investigate enzymes in bioenergy crops
Researchers in the UW–Madison biochemistry department and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will utilize a $2.1 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to elucidate the properties of a potentially useful and understudied class of genes and enzymes in important bioenergy crops, such as poplar, sorghum, and switchgrass.
Hoskins earns grant to study splicing inhibitors, connection to cancer
With a grant from the Edward P. Evans Foundation, biochemistry associate professor Aaron Hoskins is searching for new treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes — a type of blood cancer — by being able to screen for RNA splicing inhibitors using “humanized” yeast.
Venturelli receives Gates Grand Challenges Grant for exploratory work on microbiome and malnutrition
With a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists Ophelia Venturelli and Brian Pfleger are working to further research on how to use human-associated intestinal microbes to combat malnutrition in developing countries.
Venturelli, WID’s Handelsman earn Army Research Office grant to study microbial communication
Two researchers have been awarded more than $1 million as part of the multidisciplinary university research initiative from the United States Army Research Office to better understand microbial communities.