News: Faculty

Three Molecular Biosciences Faculty Honored with 2026 CNS Teaching Excellence Award

Amanda Vines, Jonathan Partridge, and Scott Stevens recognized for classroom innovation

Teaching Award Winners

Accolades

Ian Molineux Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

MBS Professor Ian Molineux was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the International Society for Viruses and Microorganisms.

Ian Molineux

Accolades

Can Cenik Receives Moderna Award for Biomedical Innovation in RNA

The RNA Society honored Cenik for his work on RNA translation.

Portrait of molecular biologist Can Cenik

Research

Forever Chemical Pollution Can Now Be Tracked

Professor of molecular biosciences David Hoffmann helped develop a new way to fingerprint a forever chemical.

A scientist wearing a lab coat and goggles pipettes a green liquid into a mostly filled tube in a lab.

Accolades

McLellan Named Recipient of the 2024 IVI-SK Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award

Jason McLellan has been named the recipient of the International Vaccine Institutes Bioscience Park MahnHoon Award for his role in the development of numerous vaccines.

Jason McLellan wearing a white lab coat standing in front of the cryo-electron microscope at The University of Texas at Austin.

Accolades

David Nobles Awarded 2022 J. Roger Porter Award

David Nobles headshot