Professor Weiping Tang harnesses cells’ natural protein disposal system to destroy disease-causing proteins.

Professor Weiping Tang harnesses cells’ natural protein disposal system to destroy disease-causing proteins.
Out of 34 competitive applications across the UW–Madison campus, Chelsi Almodóvar-Rivera was one of three students selected for the newest CBI program cohort.
Vilas Investigator Awards allow Weiping Tang and Jiaoyang Jiang to expand their research labs to pursue new opportunities.
Assistant Professor Jennifer Golden builds chemistry-centered collaborations to design and deploy new drug-like compounds to address pressing biological questions.
Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate student Arielis Estevez will use the NIH CBI Traineeship to understand the role of protein glycosylation upregulation in most cancer types.
Stephanie Ann Blaszczyk, a student researcher in the School’s Tang Laboratory, was selected to receive the National Institutes of Health’s Chemistry-Biology Interface program, which will fund her research into carbohydrates for two years.
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy Professor Richard Hsung, the Laura and Edward Kremers Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry, has been honored as a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor