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IMPRESS-U Award
The Vakser Lab received an NSF award from IMPRESS-U (International Multilateral Partnerships for Resilient Education and Science System in Ukraine) program. This multinational partnership initiative supports excellence in science and engineering research, education, and innovation through international collaboration, and promotes and catalyzes integration of Ukrainian researchers in the global research...
Vakser Lab receives $1M NSF grant to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations
Vakser Lab Work Opens a New Chapter in Cell Modeling
Joanna Slusky receives $1.5M NSF Molecular Foundations of Biotechnology award
Associate Professor Joanna Slusky received an NSF Molecular Foundations of Biotechnology award titled: MFB: NSF-BSF: Data-Adaptive and Metamorphosis Machine Learning Architectures for Generative Protein Design of Metal Biosensors. This is a three year $1.5 million award for fundamentally new approaches in chemistry to drive new directions in biotechnology. ...
Joanna Slusky Elected to Protein Society Executive Council
Associate Professor Joanna Slusky was elected to a three year term as a member of the executive committee of The Protein Society. The Protein Society is an international, not-for-profit, scholarly society with the mission to provide forums for the advancement of research into protein structure, function, design and applications. ...
Jinan Wang Receives 2022 KU Research Staff Achievement Award
KU Research Staff Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to methods developments and cutting-edge applications of computational drug discovery. The award was established in 2018 to recognize contributions of staff researchers to the research mission of the University of Kansas. Dr. Wang will be recognized at a ceremony held in April...
MIAO lab Work Published in Nature
Congratulations to the Miao Lab for a paper published in Nature, entitled “Positive allosteric mechanisms of adenosine A1 receptor-mediated analgesia”. The work is in collaboration with the Alisa Glukhova, Wendy Imlach and Arthur Christopoulos Labs at Monash University in Australia. The team has combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy, in-vitro biochemical assays,...
Yinglong Miao Wins Openeye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Yinglong Miao is one of the winners of the OpenEye outstanding Junior Faculty award managed by the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. The competitive award identifies junior stars in the area of computational chemistry and modeling. ...