BMB faculty member Dr. Belen Cassera is the co-leader of a research team that recently received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will be used to test two new drug candidates to treat malaria.

Belen Cassera spent her summer as the newest member of UGA's Innovation Fellows, a program that aims to encourage faculty and staff of the University of Georgia to pursue their interest in commercialization and product development.

Aarya Venkat, a graduate student in the BMB program and a member of Dr. Kannan’s lab, is one of six UGA graduate students to receive the 2021-22 ARCS Foundation Award.  The ARCS Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting academically outstanding U.S.

Landon M. Clark received the 2021 Sisodia-Patel Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. This award is made possible by the generosity of of Dr. Sangram S. Sisodia, who earned his Ph.D.

Emma Grace Tucker received the 2021 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Professors Emeriti Award for Outstanding Academics. The award was made possible this year by the generosity of Professor Emeritus Dan DerVartanian.

Congratulations, Emma!