Research

Faculty spotlight

Congratulations to faculty in Biological Sciences honored in the Million Dollar Research Circle Class of 2025. Chancellor Gaber hosted a reception recognizing faculty for their extraordinary external research dollars brought to the university. Honorees in Biological Sciences include Danillo Augusto, Kristen Kunk Johnson, Ian Marriott (not pictured), Bao-Hua Song, Andrew Truman, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, and Shan Yan (not pictured). Additionally Danillo Augusto was recognized for his membership in the exclusive 3 Million Dollar Research Circle. The innovative research performed by our faculty fuels the university’s new R1 status and drives hands-on training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the department. 

JUNIOR FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS

Danillo Augusto

… one of our newest Assistant Professors has a new 5 year NIH R01 award totaling $3.3 M to support his research on The Variation of the NK Cell Receptome in Pemphigus. This adds to his 2022 new NIH R21 award on the project Defining Variation in the Natural Killer Cell Receptome in Human Populations funded for 3 years for $600K.

OTHER New Awards

Ian Marriott

…. received a new NIH R01 award for 5 years to fund the project entitled Substance P exacerbation of staphylococcal bone damage.

Kausik Chakrabarti

….was awarded a new NIH/NIAID Diversity Research Supplement grant award that will support his Ph.D student Ms. Kaitlin Klotz for two years working on RNA-protein interactions in telomerase related to his NIH/NIAID R15 award for the project entitled Decoding RNA-Protein Interactions in Trypanosoma Telomerase.

Shan Yan

…. received a new NIH/NCI R03 grant titled Mechanism of APE2 in genome integrity