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. She is one of 20 early-career scientists from across the United States to be awarded this year’s Packard Fellowship. The fellowship provides $875,000 in funding over five years to pursue research.| School of Medicine and Public Health
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Katherine Alexander has been awarded a 2025 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The grant provides Alexander with $475,000 per year for five years. It will support her lab’s investigations into nuclear speckles and their potential role in kidney cancer and neuroblastoma. “We’re at a very exciting time in... The post Kate Alexander wins NIH Director’s New Innovator award appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are appointed for up to two five-year terms and receive up to $8.6 million to support their research. “This will provide us with the resources and the... The post Amor Vegas named 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger has been selected for the final stages of a Cancer Grand Challenges research initiative as part of team NEUROIMPACT. The team seeks to determine how the nervous system senses and responds to cancers. In identifying the nervous system’s role in tumor growth and cancer metastasis, they... The post Borniger reaches Cancer Grand Challenges finals appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Elizabeth Blankespoor, a popular accounting professor at the Foster School of Business, was recently honored with the 2025 PACCAR Award.| Foster Business Magazine
The Faculty of Education is proud to honour two exceptional faculty members whose contributions to research and graduate education continue to shape our community in profound ways.| Faculty of Education
With the prestigious early-career faculty grant, the assistant professor of chemical engineering will investigate complex fluid dynamics of microscopic particles and support underrepresented transfer students in their STEM education.| College of Engineering
The University of Michigan’s Biosciences Initiative has selected five accomplished scientists as the 2024 recipients of the Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award.| The University Record
2022 Biosciences Initiative Community EventIn 2018, the Biosciences Initiative (BSI) began hosting an annual event to celebrate the biosciences community at U-M. This event provides an opportunity to recognize the substantial accomplishments and efforts of our researchers.| Biosciences Initiative
After many Biosciences Initiative activities were paused in 2020 and 2021, BSI leaders were thrilled to host an in-person Biosciences Community Celebration in September 2021. This event provided an opportunity to recognize the substantial accomplishments and efforts from our research community, as they pushed through the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.| Biosciences Initiative
In the four years since its launch, President Mark Schlissel’s Biosciences Initiative has established nine major research initiatives on campus and has taken other significant steps designed to propel the University of Michigan to the forefront of the life sciences.| The University Record
