Michael Ibba
Effective September 1, 2013, Dr. Michael Ibba was appointed Department Chair of the OSU Department of Microbiology.
Tina Henkin
Congratulations to Dr. Tina Henkin who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2012. This is one of the most prestigious honors an American scholar can receive.
Jonathan Godbout
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Godbout for winning the 2012 OSU-CGS James M. Siddens Award for Distinguished Faculty Advising.
Thomas Magliery
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Magliery for winning the 2011 OSU-CGS James M. Siddens Award for Distinguished Faculty Advising.
James Cowan
Congratulations to Dr. Jimmy Cowan for winning the 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Bioinorganic Chemistry.
Venkat Gopalan
Congratulations to Dr. Venkat Gopalan who was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for the 2009-2010 academic year. The award was presented by President E. Gordon Gee.
Patrick Green
Patrick Green, Professor of Veterinary Biosciences and Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics; Director, Center for Retrovirus Research; Co-Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center Viral Oncology Program is an internationally recognized scholar that has made broad and widely recognized contributions to our understanding of the molecular basis of infection and pathogenesis of human and animal cancer viruses. Received the 2009 Distinguished Scholar Award.
Also in 2009, Dr. Green was designated Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). ASM is an international organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. Election to fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.
Jennifer Ottesen
Dr. Jennifer Ottesen from the Biochemistry Department received $776,283 from the National Science Foundation Career Award. Her project is entitled “Chemical Tools to Probe Histone H4 Modifications in the Nucleosome Core.”
Qianben Wang
Dr. Qianben Wang, professor in Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry and the Comprehensive Cancer Center participated in a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reveals how late-stage, hormone-independent prostate tumors gain the ability to grow without need of hormones. Dr. Wang is the first author of an article featured in the July 24th, 2009 issue of Cell on the role of androgen receptors in hormone independent prostate cancer, how they become active in that disease and what genes they regulate to promote tumor growth.
Michael Ostrowski
Molecular Genetics professor Dr. Michael Ostrowski is the program director of a five-year, $8.6 million National Cancer Institute grant, which began September 2004. He is one of three Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers who will study the role of non-cancer tumor cells that have direct contact with cancer cells in helping the disease progress.
Ostrowski is also a co-principal investigator on the grant, along with his colleagues, Charis Eng, the Dorothy E. Klotz Chair of Cancer Research and the director of the clinical cancer group; and Gustavo Leone, an assistant professor in molecular virology and molecular genetics.
The researchers will focus on the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer progression, although the study's findings might apply to any cancer of epithelial tissue, including prostate, lung, colon and liver.
Zucai Suo
Dr. Zucai Suo from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry received $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Awards program. The highly competitive CAREER awards are given only to the nation's most promising young scholars who are believed likely to make important contributions to teaching and research in their fields. The CAREER award will fund Suo's work on "Kinetic, Dynamic, and Structure-Function Relationship Studies of a Y-Family Polymerase." This project looks at the way a group of enzymes called the Y-family polymerases "pave over" or fix damaged spots in a DNA sequence, allowing DNA production to continue.Understanding this process may eventually lead to a better understanding of the causes of cancer formation.
“Received the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association in the United States”
Dongping Zhong
Dr. Dongping Zhong was selected as one of 16 young scientists to receive a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the first Ohio State faculty to do so. In 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation's most promising professors to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Every year, the foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two professors each from their institutions. Nominations are reviewed by an advisory panel of distinguished scientists and engineers. The 2005 Fellows will receive individual awards of $625,000, payable over five consecutive years.