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Welcome to Danny Lam!
The Department is delighted to announce that Danny Lam joined us in March as a fiscal associate. Danny comes to us from the Brain and Spine Hospital and also brings fiscal associate experience…

Sharon Amacher wins Harlan Hatcher award
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sharon Amacher is the 2023 recipient of the Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes a full professor who has a…

Catalyst funding to Patrice Hamel and colleagues
Congratulations to Patrice Hamel who is a co-investigator on a recently awarded President's Research Excellence Catalyst Award entitled "Artificial Metalloenzymes for the Sustainable Production of…

NIH funding to Guramrit Singh
Congratulations to Amrit Singh, whose NIH grant entitled "Post-transcriptional gene regulation by the exon junction complex" was recently funded for 5 years! Work in the Singh lab focuses on…

12th Avenue Greenhouse on WOSU!
The sometimes overlooked greenhouse on the roof of the 12th avenue garage was recently highlighted as a hidden gem in the WOSU series "Columbus Neighborhoods". The Biological Sciences Greenhouse…

Zebrafish research on campus highlighted
The Ohio State Health and Discovery website recently published an article discussing zebrafish research on campus entitled "The scientific wonders of zebrafish for biomedical research". Among many…

Molecular Genetics alum Mitchell Ticoras wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Many congratulations to alumnus Mitchell Ticoras who was just awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF. Mitchell graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2022 with a BS in Molecular…

OSU cohort win awards at Ohio Zebrafish Undergraduate Research Conference
The second annual Ohio Zebrafish Undergraduate Research conference was held at Kenyon college on March 25th, and the Zebrafish Research Student Organization sent a large contingent of OSU…

Another prestigious award for Christin Burd
We are delighted to announce that only weeks after receiving the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, Christin Burd was honored again with the Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award in a…