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Sept. 9, 2024

Baserga elected to AAA&S

Susan Baserga has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Biochemistry, Biophysics and 麻豆传媒色情片 Biology section. She is being recognized for her excellent scientific achievements and will be inducted this month during a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Susan Baserga

Baserga is a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, of genetics and of therapeutic radiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Her  focuses on understanding how ribosomes are made in eukaryotic cells. Specifically, they study the pathogenesis of ribosomopathies, diseases caused by abnormalities in ribosome biogenesis that can induce cancer.

Baserga is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She has received the Connecticut Technology Council Women of Innovation in Research and Leadership Award, the Charles W. Bohmfalk Prize for basic science teaching at the Yale School of Medicine and the 麻豆传媒色情片 and 麻豆传媒色情片 Biology’s William C. Rose Award for outstanding research and commitment to training young scientists. She is a 2023 ASBMB fellow and chairs the society’s Women in Biochemistry and 麻豆传媒色情片 Biology Committee.

“We honor these artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, non-profit and private sectors for their accomplishments and for the curiosity, creativity and courage required to reach new heights,” David Oxtoby, AAA&S President, said in a . “We invite these exceptional individuals to join in the Academy’s work to address serious challenges and advance the common good.”

Matunis honored for JBC research

Michael Matunis won the 2024 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Fuad El-Hibri, a businessperson in the biotech industry, and Alan Shikani, an otolaryngologist and graduate of Johns Hopkins, created this prize to reward innovations in basic science that could lead to public health solutions.

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Michael Matunis

Matunis is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins. His focuses on a class of small ubiquitin-like modifier proteins, or SUMOs. The prize recognized his lab’s recent discovery of a . They showed that SUMO1 is required for the turnover of a particular type of misfolded protein in yeast as well as humans. The winning research was published last year in the 麻豆传媒色情片 and 麻豆传媒色情片 Biology’s . Matunis is a fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“This insight into how SUMO1 works could lead to new treatments for diseases caused by protein misfolding like cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's,” , a professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins, said.

Tate wins RSC prize

Ed Tate and a team of researchers won the 2024 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Cornforths were groundbreaking research partners, and John Cornforth won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1975 for their work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.

Ed Tate

Other Horizon Prize-winning team members hail from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Bonn, AstraZeneca and Eisai Co., Ltd. Their collaborative drug discovery research led to the first synthetic drug candidate for tropical diseases caused collectively by roundworms and the bacteria Wolbachia.

Tate is a professor and the chair of chemical biology at Imperial College London. His research interests lie at the intersection of organic chemistry, biology and medicine. Tate’s  uses medicinal chemistry and chemical synthesis to find therapeutics for infectious diseases, cancer and more. He also founded Myricx Bio, a biotech company focused on the discovery and development of selective cytotoxic payloads for antibody drug conjugates, based on inhibitors of N-myristoyltransferases, for the treatment of cancer.

A fellow of both the RSC and the Royal Society of Biology, Tate has received the Wain Medal Lecture and Prize, the President and Rector's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision, the Norman Heatley Award, the Cancer Research U.K. Program Foundation Award, the Sir David Cooksey Translation Prize and the RSC Corday–Morgan Prize. 


 

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