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TPCB congratulates Prof. Vanessa Ruta on her election to the National Academy of Sciences and Prof. Olga Boudker on her election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! These honors recognize their landmark scientific contributions across neuroscience, biophysics, and chemical biology. [more]

TPCB welcomes five new faculty to the program! Prof. Kaavya Krishna Kumar, Prof. Andres Leschziner, and Prof. Samara Reck-Peterson have joined from Weill Cornell, and Prof. Max Wilkinson and Prof. Xiaolan Zhao have joined from Sloan Kettering. They bring a wide range of exciting new multidisciplinary research opportunities for our students! [more]

TPCB congratulates our students Yuanhuang Chen, Michelle Guo, and Kaila Nishikawa, who have been awarded prestigious graduate fellowships to support their thesis research! These competitive awards will support their innovative work at the interface of chemical biology with cancer biology, immunology, and epigenetics. [more]

Gabriella Chua, PhD has been honored with a 2026 Harold Weintraub Award! This prestigious award recognizes her outstanding thesis research, in which she uncovered new molecular mechanisms in DNA replication and chromatin regulation. Gabriella is a recent graduate from the lab of Prof. Shixin Liu at Rockefeller. [more]

TPCB presented the 21th Annual Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium on August 28, 2025. Keynote lectures were presented by Profs. Susan Shao, Khalid Salaita, Steve Bonilla, and Alanna Schepartz, in addition to student talks and over 50 poster presentations across the breadth of the chemical biology field. [more]

The Tri-I Chemical Biology Summer Program (ChBSP) welcomed five outstanding undergraduates to campus this summer! The interns pursued forefront chemical biology research in TPCB labs, participated in scientific and professional development activities, and gave poster presentations on their work. [more]

TPCB congratulates Clare Cahir, who has been recognized with the 2025 TPCB Student Service Award for her exceptional contributions to the scientific community! Clare has served in numerous leadership roles in outreach and mentoring programs across the Tri-I campuses and is a passionate and dedicated leader. [more]

In a recent Nature paper, TPCB student Christian Baca and colleagues in the labs of Prof. Luciano Marraffini and Prof. Dinshaw Patel have discovered a new mechanism of bacterial immunity to phage infection, in which binding of a cyclic adenylate to a novel CRISPR effector called Cam1 arrests host cell functions. [more]