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Fall 2020

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A new study led by Princeton’s Julien Ayroles and Mpala’s Dino Martins supports the “mismatch” hypothesis.

Princeton and Mpala scholars link obesity and disease to dramatic dietary changes

  • Health
Mohammad (Mo) Seyedsayamdost

Princeton chemist Mohammad Seyedsayamdost awarded a MacArthur Fellowship

  • Biology
  • Health
SNAI2 (pronounced snail-too) helps cancers metastasize and hide from treatment, but Kang and his team have found two keys to controlling it.

Kang finds keys to control the ‘driver of cancer’s aggressiveness’

  • Biology
  • Health
Princeton researchers are part of a team developing a drug that, in lab studies, is highly effective against the organisms that cause the diseases malaria and toxoplasmosis.

Novel drug could be a powerful weapon in the fight against malaria and toxoplasmosis

  • Biology
  • Health
Screenshot of Time-lapse movie of Optobinder tool that latches and releases molecules

New tools catch and release cellular targets at the flip of a light switch

  • Biology
  • Health
The Genentech campus in South San Francisco, California

Princeton Catalysis Initiative Announces Collaboration with Genentech

  • Innovation
  • Biology
Frick Chemistry Building

Princeton’s Prud’homme and Yang partner with Genentech to decode a key process in vaccines and cancer treatments

  • Biology
  • Health
Bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne

Bioengineer Clifford Brangwynne named 2020 Blavatnik National Awards laureate

  • Biology
  • Materials
Side by side image of H. Vincent Poor and Mengdi Wang

Princeton Engineering faculty members receive grants for COVID-19 research from C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data
  • Education
  • Health
Time-lapse of cells under microscope

Researchers use electric fields to herd cells like flocks of sheep

  • Biology
  • Health
marsupial in tree

Funding the next big idea: New projects receive Dean for Research Innovation awards

  • Innovation
  • Health
  • Materials
  • Society
Illustration of antibiotic puncturing bacteria walls

Princeton team develops ‘poisoned arrow’ to defeat antibiotic-resistant bacteria

  • Biology
  • Health