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Historian Martha Jones wins L A Times Book Prize for history
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Molecular biologist Erika Pearce joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
A leading expert in the field of immunometabolism, she comes to the university from the Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics
Image caption: Erika Pearce By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published April 6, 2021
Molecular biologist Erika Pearce, whose groundbreaking research into the role of metabolism in immune system regulation has led to fundamental discoveries about cellular biology and new avenues for drug development, will join Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor.
An international leader in the field of immunometabolism, Pearce has always had a fascination with how the body works. As a child, she was drawn to human anatomy books, spending her time scouring the pages and dreaming of becoming a doctor. But a course on basic immunology during her undergraduate studies at Cornell University sparked a love of res
Molecular biologist Jeff Coller joins Johns Hopkins
As a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, he will hold appointments in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published March 16, 2021
It was during a research semester abroad in Stockholm, home of the Nobel Prize, that molecular biologist Jeff Coller discovered scientist was a viable career path for him, and it was a discovery that he calls magical.
Just a few years earlier, biologists Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that RNA a building block of cellular function can start or accelerate its own chemical processes, an ability that had only been considered possible for proteins. Coller happened to be studying a gene with this form of autocatalytic RNA, and from there it all clicked.