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Pombo, a pioneering molecular biologist who developed Genome Architecture Mapping, is now the university’s Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Genome Biology While a strand of human DNA is approximately 6.5 feet long, it is folded into a cell nucleus that is only 10 micrometers in diameter—roughly…

  Jeremy Nathans, left, and Theodore DeWeese (photo by Eric Stocklin) The Johns Hopkins University of School of Medicine celebrated the second annual Four Doctors Awards Ceremony on May 12, honoring Jeremy Nathans, professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience, and ophthalmology, with the inaugural Welch…

To the school of medicine community Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience and ophthalmology, is the inaugural recipient of the Welch Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research, the second award in the Four Doctors Awards series….

Jeff Coller, received an Envisioning the Future Award, as part of Johns Hopkins University’s 150th anniversary. The Sesquicentennial Awards Program recognizes exceptional projects that reflect the university’s legacy of discovery while looking boldly toward the future. From artistic expression to forward-thinking research and convening, this cycle’s…

Adler Guerrero Zuniga for being awarded the 2025 Gilliam Fellowship August 8, 2025

Acelyn McGowan from O’Connor Lab receives a 2026 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Former Seydoux Lab postdoc Dr. Andrea Putnam has been awarded a Packard Fellowship. Dr. Putnam is now a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Andrea Putnam

Bacteria Use Viral Naps to Build Immunity New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves By Humberto Basilio edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is…

Congratulations to MBG undergraduate student Josh Khorsandi! Josh is student in the Biophysics and Computational Medicine program and recipient of a 2025 Provost’s Undergraduate Rsearch Award (PURA) to examine the role of host lipid sequestration to protect against bacterial infection in the laboratory of Tamara O’Connor.

Congratulations to MBG graduate student Katya Romanov! Katya is a student in the XDBio graduate program and recipient of a 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, completing her PhD examining the role of host lipids in Legionella pathogenesis in the laboratory of Tamara O’Connor.