Congratulations to Rebecca Heald on being elected 2028 ASCB President.
Heald is a leading cell biologist whose work on cell division and size control—and commitment to mentoring—has had a lasting impact on the field.
https://www.ascb.org/society-news/rebecca-heald-elected-2028-ascb-president/
Congrats to MCB's Michel DuPage, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! 👏🥂
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The MCB Transcript Spring 2026 newsletter is here!
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Congratulations to MCB's Nicholas Ingolia, Kunxin Luo & David Weisblat who received the departmental 2026 MCB Outstanding Faculty Awards! 👏🎉
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The Molecular Therapeutics Initiative is excited to announce that applications for the MTI Innovation Award are now open!
We are supporting innovative ideas advancing molecular
therapeutics and translational science.
🔗 Details & application:
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Congrats to MCB's Jeremy Thorner who will serve on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal starting 7-1-26! @pnas.org
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Congrats to Ana Galic and Kevin Li, who just graduated with honors in MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social, and to the brand new Dr. Trinity Cookis @trinitycookis.bsky.social 👨🎓👩🎓👩🎓🤩. Very best wishes for your next endeavors 💝
MCB is pleased to welcome Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social, Professor of Molecular Therapeutics, on July 1st! Read more about Dr. Ward's research and appointment to UC Berkeley: ls.berkeley.edu/news/michael...
Exciting work from MCB's Eric Betzig,
Gokul Upadhyayula @supgokul.bsky.social & collaborators at UCB's Advanced Bioimaging Center! 🔬
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The UC Berkeley Molecular Therapeutics Initiative seeks to accelerate bold, early-stage therapeutic discovery projects with strong potential for translational impact. The MTI Innovation Awards are…
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In tumors that have lost expression of MHC-I, Treg ablation could unleash NK cell cytotoxicity and help to control CD8+ T cell-resistant tumors bit.ly/4uBrRII
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At UC Berkeley, high-resolution microscopes are generating images of cells and embryos day and night, collecting massive amounts of data to train an AI model for living biological systems.
