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September 2026
NIH Renews R35 Outstanding Investigator Award to the Kuchay Lab
We are thrilled to announce that the NIH has renewed our R35 Outstanding Investigator Award to support our ongoing research on membrane protein degradation!
Funding Period: 2020 – 2031
September 3, 2026
Sanaz and Shruthi presented talks at the BMG department retreat
Shruthi and Sanaz were selected to present their research at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Retreat in the form of 15 min talks.
June 16, 2026
Dr. Ning Zheng was invited as a special seminar speaker
We were thrilled to host Dr. Ning Zheng at our department for the annual Robert H. Costa Memorial Lecture.
His talk was titled Molecular Glues: From Mechanisms to Therapeutics. It was very well received by the audience!
June 1, 2026
Shruthi presented her research at the FASEB ubiquitin conference
Shruthi was selected to present a 15 min talk, a lightening talk, and a poster at the FASEB Ubiquitin Meeting at Louisville, Kentucky held June 1- June 4, 2026.
She had the opportunity to meet and discuss her research with well-known scientists in the field.
April 30, 2026
Liping published her manuscript in Cell Death and Disease
Liping's paper is titled:
Protein Tyrosine Kinase-6 is post-translationally regulated by arginine methylation and ubiquitination.
Jiang L, Gilic MB, Vlajic K, Bie W, Kuchay S*, Tyner AL*.
Cell Death & Disease. In press. *Corresponding authors
Congratulations, Liping!
