News: Accolades

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

Accolades

Tanya Paull Selected as Fellow of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin was one of 16 new fellows named.

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Virus Slayer Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation

The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for infectious disease.

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Meet Three Exceptional Seniors Among our 2025 Graduates of Distinction

More than 150 top CNS students have been selected and celebrated for their distinctive contributions.

Undergraduate College

College of Natural Sciences Student Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Biochemistry junior Mrigayu Ghosh plans to conduct pioneering research in stem cells and mechanobiology for tissue engineering.

The Graduate School

Graduate Students Win at 2025 Empower Your Pitch Competition

Neuroscience Ph.D. student Cole Maguire and cell and molecular biology Ph.D. student Lisa Wang won prizes for research talks.

Accolades

Three UT Austin Faculty Members Selected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Ken Keiler studies basic molecular biology with the aim of developing new antibiotics.