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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….

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.

Scientists design experimental protein booster for rare genetic diseases Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA ‘booster’ as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels of specific cellular proteins By Vanessa Wasta and Alexandria Carolan / Published Mar 11 2025 Johns…

  Huge congratulations to our very own Dr. Jeremy Nathans who is the 2024 World Laureates Association Prize Leaureate in Life Science or Medicine! Dr. Nathans’ won for discovering the genes, regulation and plasticity underlying human color vision and elucidating disease mechanisms that lead to…

Congratulations to Sarah Voss, a 2024 Lasker Essay Contest winner! Her essay, titled “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” will be published in the July 15th issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Sarah is a PhD Candidate in the Josh Modell Lab at…