Congratulations to Amanda Qu for being awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Amanda is currently a second year student in Doug Barrick’s lab. Yay Amanda!!!

PMB student Mel Nune won the Young Investigators’ Day Alicia Showalter Reynolds Award! This award is provided by the Dean’s Office of the School of Medicine, and recognizes the research of outstanding Ph.D. students across the School of Medicine. Mel will be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 6th.

PMB student Elmer Zapata-Mercado (Hristova lab) was inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society!  The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding academic achievement and commitment to diversity.

Congratulations to Amy Fernandez for being awarded a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  Amy is currently a second year student in James Berger’s lab.  Her fellowship is titled “Structural and mechanistic studies of molecular crosstalk in the bacterial primosome.”  Way to go, Amy!!!

Professor Karen G. Fleming (center) was announced as the first recipient of the Sharona Gordon Award by the Society of General Physiologists for her efforts as a leader in identifying & communicating problems that affect scientific environments such as unintended bias and lack of diversity in science. Professor Fleming was the first ever to receive […]

Henry successfully defended his thesis, entitled “Elucidating general effects of bilayer hydration and mechanical forces on β-barrel membrane protein energetics” on Jan. 13.  Congratulations Dr. Henry! [...]

The PMB program was excited to have 37 students from all over the country take part in the annual visiting weekend in Baltimore. Prospective students of the program took part in many engaging activities including dinner with faculty, lab tours at Homewood and JHMI, a scientific-poster presentation session, and a tour of Baltimore, Maryland, home […]

Cynthia Wolberger, PhD and Taekjip Ha, PhD are part of the amazing faculty here in the Program for Molecular Biophysics. We are proud of their achievements, impressed by the work they have done, and are excited that they are getting the recognition they most definitely deserve.

We are thrilled to welcome the new students joining the PMB program in 2019! We are looking forward to seeing the great work they have in store. The new students already attended their first IBR retreat in late August and had fun introducing themselves to PMB faculty and fellow students.