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Stay up to date with the latest achievements and milestones in our department, including faculty promotions, research publications, grant awards, and student recognitions. Explore cutting-edge discoveries and celebrate the accomplishments of our vibrant research community!

Faculty Award: Meena Rao, PhD

Posted on November 07, 2023

Professor Emerita, Mrinalini (Meena) Chatta Rao, is one of five outstanding scientists selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Awards of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for the year 2023. Dr. Rao has…

Promotion: Alexandra Naba, PhD

Posted on August 17, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Naba on the promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. In 2016, Dr. Naba joined UIC and formed the Lab for Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Research. She is a founder…

Promotion: Paul Goldspink, PhD

Posted on August 17, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Goldspink on the promotion to the rank of Research Associate Professor. Dr. Goldspink, an alumnus of the department, rejoined the department as a faculty member in 2019. Since arriving…

Publication: Naba Lab

Posted on August 07, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Naba and her team on their latest article entitled “Matrisome AnalyzeR: A suite of tools to annotate and quantify ECM molecules in big datasets across organisms” published in the Journal…

Award News: Naba Lab

Posted on March 23, 2023

Nandini Kapoor, rising senior in the Naba lab, has received a Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) award for the 2023-2024 academic year! Nandini’s research will focus on studying the role…

Publication: Naba Lab

Posted on March 15, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Naba on the publication of her latest review entitled “10 years of extracellular matrix proteomics: Accomplishments, challenges, and future perspectives” published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. Dr. Naba’s review was…

Publication: Jiang Lab

Posted on March 15, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Jiang and her team for their publication “Genetically prolonged beige fat in male mice confers long-lasting metabolic health” in Nature Communications! In this study, the authors show that inhibiting Cdkn2a-Becn1-mediated…

Award: Naba Lab

Posted on March 08, 2023

Congratulations to Ikram Isa, biomedical engineering major and 3rd-year undergraduate research assistant in the Naba lab for receiving a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award (CURA) from the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate…