Recent Research Highlights
Kavran Lab
In a Biochemistry Journal cover story, the Kavran Lab showed that MST1/2 protein kinase activation by autophosphorylation requires dimerization.
Culotta Lab
Valeria Culotta’s lab has uncovered a role for manganese in Candida albicans infections, for pathogen and host.
Leung Lab
Anthony Leung's lab has teamed up again with Sua Myong's lab and discovered unexpected structural properties of poly(ADP-ribose).
News and Events
BMB Postdoctoral Fellow Yang Liu Receives 2023 Judge and Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham Memorial Fund Award
July 25, 2023
BMB Professor Fengyi Wan Receives 2023 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation
April 10, 2023
Public Health Under the Microscope
Public Health Magazine story featuring BMB Professor Fengyi Wan
March 7, 2023
BMB Celebrated the Inaugural Roger L. McMacken Jr. Lecture
February 28, 2023
BMB Celebrates 2022 Award Recipients
November 30, 2022
Celebrated Cancer Researcher Chi Van Dang Joins Johns Hopkins
November 14, 2022
BMB Chair Ashani Weeraratna Awarded Metastasis Research Society’s Highest Honor
July 08, 2022
The Age of Antivirals
Public Health Magazine story featuring BMB Professor Anthony Leung
April 18, 2022
A Collaboration Across Johns Hopkins Finds a Passing PAR Interaction Can Trigger Stable FUS Aggregations
March 14, 2022
Wan Lab Identifies Potential Connection Between Transient Bacterial Infections and Colon Cancer
February 11, 2022
Mouse Study Led by Bloomberg School Researchers Identifies Bacterial Protein Associated with Colorectal Cancers
January 12, 2022
Researchers Develop Platform to Screen For New Class of Coronavirus Antiviral Compounds
December 14, 2021
The Rise of Invasive Fungi
Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine story featuring BMB Professor Val Culotta
September 30, 2021
Danfeng Cai joins BMB Faculty
September 16, 2021
Johns Hopkins Cancer Researcher Ashani Weeraratna Appointed To National Cancer Advisory Board By President Biden
September 16, 2021
Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: The Overlooked Cancer
Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine story featuring BMB Assistant Professor Vito Rebecca
September 3, 2021
Wang Lab Discovers New Function of Major ALS-linked Protein
June 25, 2021
The Spaces We Occupy
Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine column by BMB Chair Ashani Weeraratna
May 27, 2021
Leung Lab Illuminates ADP-ribosylation Signaling's Role In Biomolecular Condensate Regulation
May 11, 2021
Utthara Nayar Joins BMB Faculty
April 05, 2021
Scientists Discover Cellular Stress Enzyme That Might Play Key Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases Such as ALS
March 11, 2021
Wang Lab Identifies New Neurodegeneration-Related Protein Quality Control Pathway
November 25, 2020
Discovery Illuminates How Cell Growth Pathway Responds to Signals
November 20, 2020
Vito Rebecca Joins BMB Faculty
October 21, 2020
BMB Lab Creates Educational CRISPR Primer With Support From Walder Foundation
October 05, 2020
In Memoriam: Pien-Chien (P.C.) Huang (1931-2020)
August 06, 2020
Wang Lab Identifies RNA Structure Role in Membraneless Organelle Formation
July 27, 2020
Statement From the Chair: A Pledge to Fight Racism and Racial Inequalities
June 25, 2020
Colleen Cutcliffe Shares About Being a BMB Alumna and Start-up Cofounder
June 17, 2020
Wang Lab Research Reveals Role of C9 in Nutrient and Metabolic Stress Response
May 28, 2020
Valeria Culotta Named Associate Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs
February 11, 2020
The Microenvironmentalist
Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine interview of BMB Chair Ashani Weeraratna
February 05, 2020
A Fundamental Discovery About How Gene Activity Is Regulated
February 03, 2020
From BMB to Clinical Research—the Paths of Two BMB Master’s Alumni
December 23, 2019
In Memoriam: Roger McMacken (1943-2019)
December 13, 2019
BMB Associate Professor Receives Walder Foundation Gift
October 22, 2019
Reprogramming Protein Quality Control to Protect Against Neurodegeneration
May 6, 2019
Rebecca Ursin From the Klein Lab Wins 2019 Delta Omega Poster Competition
April 12, 2019
2019 Scholastic Awards
April 1, 2019
BMB Faculty Anthony Leung Received the 2019 Shikani/El Hibri Prize for Discovery & Innovation
April 1, 2019
PhD Candidate T.J. Koehler From the Kavran Lab Receives the Elsa Orent Keiles Fellowship
March 12, 2019
The Leung Lab Published a New Toolkit to Study PARP in Molecular Cell
February 1, 2019
BMB Faculty Fengyi Wan Receives Samuel Jordan Graham Award
February 10, 2019
Protein Quality Control Under Stress: A Discovery By Liz Alexander From the Wang Lab
February 10, 2019
PhD Candidate Harry Liu From the Wan Lab Receives Predoctoral Fellowship From the American Heart Association
January 9, 2019
Four PhD Students Recieve 2018 Brian Crawford Scholarship
December 1, 2018
Wang Lab Findings Uncover Connection Between Neurodegeneration and Metabolism
November 1, 2018
PhD Student Shang-Jung Cheng From the Leung Lab Receives the 2018 Ministry of Education Scholarship From Taiwan
October 10, 2018
PhD Candidate Ed Culbertson From the Culotta Lab Wins First PlacePoster Award at the International Meeting on Copper in Health and Disease
October 3, 2018
BMB Faculty Valeria Culotta Receives the Ivano Bertini Achievement Award for Bioinorganic Chemistry of Copper at the International Meeting on Copper in Health and Disease
October 3, 2018
2018 BMB Alumni Reunion
September 28-29, 2018
PhD Candidate Jessica Hopkins of the Jordan Lab Received the Poster Presentation Prize at the Gorden Research Conference on Meiosis
June 21, 2018
BMB Faculty Phil Jordan Receives Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
June 4, 2018
Postdoc Nicole Camlin of the Evans Lab Wins 2018 Delta Omega Scholarship for Laboratory Research
June 10, 2018
BMB Faculty Valeria Culotta Receives an Inaugural Dean’s Award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring
May 7, 2018
Postdoc Aravinthkumar Jayabalan (Leung Lab) and PhD Student Justin Jacob (Coulombe Lab) Announced as Research Photo Contest Winners
April 23, 2018
2018 Annual BMB Retreat
April 13-14, 2018
2018 Scholastic Awards
March 14, 2018
PhD Candidate Harry Liu From the Wan Lab Recieves the Elsa Orent Keiles Fellowship
March 14, 2018
Postdoc Lesley Weaver of the Drummond-Barbosa Lab Receives K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award From the National Institutes of Health
March 1, 2018
PhD Student Joe Fischer of the Leung lab Receives an NIH-NIGMS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
March 1, 2018
BMB Faculty Anthony Leung Receives Medical Research Award From the W. W. Smith Charitable Trust
December 1, 2017
Postdoc Lesley Weaver of the Drummond-Barbosa Lab Received an American Society for Cell Biology Travel Award for 2017 ASCB/EMBO Meeting
September 25, 2017
PhD Students Alisa Boyko of the Jordan Lab and Hana' Odeh of the Matunis lab receive American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Travel Awards for 2017 ASCB/EMBO Meeting
September 25, 2017
Postdoc Kenji Johnson of the Wang Lab Receives Judge Travel Award for 2017 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
August 22, 2017
The Leung Lab Joins Cancer Survivors at Fundraiser
July 1, 2017
The Patient Researcher
Public Health Magazine feature about BMB Faculty Anthony Leung
June 30, 2017
BMB Faculty Fengyi Wan Recieves Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
June 30, 2017
BMB faculty members Phil Jordan, Fengyi Wan and Anthony Leung Recieve 2017 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
June 30, 2017
PhD Student Lyle McPherson of the Leung Lab Won Best Poster Award by MDPI Open Access Journals at PARP2017 Conference
May 17, 2017
PhD Candidate Christine Lee of the Matunis Lab Recieves Fredrick Bang Award
May 4, 2017
PhD Graduate Nicole Parker of the Wright Lab Recieves XXIV North American 2017 Testies Workshop Poster Award
April 19, 2017
2017 Annual BMB Retreat
April 2-4, 2017
BMB Diversity and Inclusion Kick-off Event
March 27, 2017
PhD Candidate Robert McPherson of the Leung Lab Recieves the Elsa Orent Keils Fellowship
March 17, 2017
BMB Faculty Daniela Drummond-Barbosa Won the Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation
February 2, 2017
Leung Lab PhD Student Lyle McPherson’s Curiosity About a Protein Led to a Discovery About a Virus
February, 2017
BMB’s Leung Lab and MMI’s Griffin Lab Identify Mechanism in Chikungunya Virus That Controls Infection and Severity
January 31, 2017
2016 Scholastic Awards
January 31, 2017
The 26th Annual Larry Ewing Lecture
November 14, 2016
The 6th Annual Lawrence Grossman Lecture
October 17, 2016
BMB Faculty Anthony Leung Named Top 10 Finalist in ASCB–Gibco Emerging Leader Prize
September, 2016
Coulombe Lab PhD Student Yajuan Guo Received Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Travel Award for Functional Disulfide Bonds in Health & Disease Meeting
September, 2016
BMB Faculty Members Scott Bailey, Michael Matunis, and Jiou Wang Recieve Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
July, 2016
BMB Faculty Jiou Wang Receives Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
July, 2016
BMB Faculty Anthony Leung Receives Grant From American Cancer Society
July, 2016
Jordan Lab PhD Student Stephen Wellard Receives a Poster Prize at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC)
July 25, 2016
Coulombe Lab ScM Student Stefan Prendergast is the Inaugural Recipient of the Reverend Melvin B. Tuggle Community Excellence Award
June 15, 2016
PhD Student Chynna Broxton of the Culotta Lab Receives J. Howard Brown Award for Outstanding Graduate Student from the Maryland Branch of the American Society for Microbiology
June 15, 2016
Rosemary Lu, ScM Student in the Coulombe Lab, Received the Spirit of Student Assembly Award
May 27, 2016
Grace Hwang, PhD Student in the Jordan Lab, Receives Genetics Society of America travel For The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC)
April 25, 2016
2016 Annual BMB Retreat
April 22-23, 2016
PhD Student Christine Lee of the Matunis Lab Receives the Elsa Orent Keiles Fellowship
March 23, 2016
BMB Faculty Jennifer Kavran Receives 2016 Faculty Innovation Fund Award
March, 2016
PhD Student Jessica Hopkins of the Jordan Lab Wins 2016 Baltimore Area Repair Symposium Poster Contest
BMB Faculty Scott Bailey Receives JHU President’s Frontier Award
February 1, 2016
The 6th Cecile Pickart Lecture
February 1, 2016
PhD Student Eric Simko of the Wang Lab Receives a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Scholarship
January 29, 2016
2016 Annual Achievement Awards
January 12. 2016
The 5TH Lawrence Grossman Lecture
December 1, 2015
BMB Faculty Michael Matunis Named AAAS Fellow
November 23, 2015
PhD Student Lyle McPherson of the Leung Lab Receives Journal of Cell Science Traveling Fellowship
October 1, 2015
BMB Welcomes New Faculty Jenniver Kavran
October, 2015
Val Culotta’s Lab Discovers ‘Clever Adaptation’ That Allows Yeast Infection Fungus to Evade Immune System Attack
September 7, 2015
BMB Faculty Phil Jordan Receives Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
July 6, 2015
BMB Faculty Anthony Leung and Scott Bailey Receive Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards
June 24, 2015
Coulombe Lab Postdoc Michelle Kerns Wins Thurston R. Adams Prize From the University of Maryland Department of Surgery Buxton Research Symposium
June 23, 2015
Wang Lab Finds Molecular Pathway Known to Suppress Tumors Appears to Also Reduce Burden of Neurodegenerative Diseases
June 2, 2015
Wang Lab PhD Student Eric Simko Receives Frederik Bang Award
May 18, 2015
Postdoc Ryan Hobbs of the Coulombe Lab Awarded Carol Eliasberg Martin Scholarship and 1st Place, Basic Science Category, at SKCC Fellow Research Day Poster Session
May 18, 2015
Culotta Lab PhD Student Chynna Broxton Recieves Frederik Bang Award and an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship
April, 2015
2015 Annual Achievement Awards
March 23. 2015
2015 Annual BMB Retreat
March 6-7, 2015
PhD Student Cissy Li of the Culotta Lab the Wins Lab Science Category and Overall Award at 2015 Delta Omega Poster Competition
February 5, 2015
Aaron Haeusler from the Wang Lab ReceiveS NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
February, 2015
Scott Bailey Awarded 2015 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation, Named Finalist for Inaugural Johns Hopkins President's Frontier Award
January 28, 2015
BMB Faculty Daniela Drummond-Barbosa Named AAAS Fellow
November 28, 2014
PhD Student Casey Daniels of the Leung Lab Won the 2014 Joy Cappel Young Investigator Award
November 17, 2014
The 24th Annual Larry Ewing Lecture
September 15, 2014
Harnessing the Power of Bacteria’s Sophisticated Immune System
August 14, 2014
The Domino Effect
May, 2014
Finally, the ‘How’ of ALS
Public Health Magazine feature about Jiou Wang’s research
April, 2014
ALS-Linked Gene Causes Disease By Changing Genetic Material’s Shape
March 5, 2014
“Super” Enzyme Protects Against Dangers of Oxygen
January 29, 2013