Researchers in the Engin Lab have discovered a mechanism that could one day help people at risk of developing the metabolic disease.
Year: 2025
Christopher Gisriel Earns Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
The award will support his exploration of fundamental questions about how and why some organisms can use far red light for photosynthesis.
Wei Selected as STRIDE Scholar
Wei’s research explores fundamental questions about how what we eat affects our health.
IPiB Thesis Defense November 21, 2025: Rohith Rajasekaran
Rajasekaran’s research in the Coyle Lab explored how to repurpose naturally-existing cellular systems to engineer new functions into cells.
IPiB Thesis Defense December 5, 2025: Ross Soens
Soens’s research in the Coon Lab explored post-translational modifications to proteins in mammalian cells.
Research Follow-up: Preventing Fungal Infections
New research from the Hoskins and Hull Labs points to a promising new avenue for treating harmful fungal infections.
Researchers Link Mutations in RPA Protein to Cancer, Other Diseases
Researchers in the Lim Lab reveal that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining stability in our chromosomes may be responsible for serious diseases.
Andrea Putnam Awarded 2025 Packard Fellowship
Putnam’s research focuses on how RNA and proteins organize into specialized structures within cells called germ granules that help orchestrate gene expression during development.
UW Researchers Uncover Possible New Treatment to Target a Devastating Childhood Brain Cancer
The biomolecular chemistry researchers developed a new model to investigate genetic drivers of a rare but aggressive pediatric brain tumor.
IPiB Thesis Defense November 25, 2025: David Rivera-Kohr
Rivera-Kohr’s research in the Fox Lab explored biochemical mechanisms to degrade and repurpose waste products.