ASBMB welcomes new members
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology welcomed 79 new members in August.
| Simeon Babarinde, University of Bath Natarajan Balasubramaniyan, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Shauna Bennett, Georgetown University Bryan Berger, University of Virginia Snehal Bhandare, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Abdulghani Bin–Nafisah, King Saud University Fabienne Birkle, University of Michigan Guido Bommer, Université Catholique de Louvain Caleb Bridgwater, Georgetown University Courtney Brown, Yale University Tyler Brown, Yale University Rachel Burge, Medical University of South Carolina Massimo Caruso, University of Catania Anirban Chakraborty, University of Texas Medical Branch Audrey Chang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Liana Cole, St. Olaf College Mario Coll, Florida International University Rafal Donczew, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Mustafa Elhefnawi, University of Maine Oriana Fisher, Lehigh University Gabriela Francisco, Andrews University Shreyas Gaikwad, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Andrea Cecilia Garcia Sandoval, Institute for Advance Biosciences Power George, University of Benin Stefan Gerhardy, Genentech Inc. Warner Greene, Gladstone Institutes Claudia Guimas Almeida, NOVA University Medical School Humera Gull, University of Texas at Dallas Kailash Gulshan, Cleveland State University Emery Haley, Van Andel Institute Graduate School Paul Hauser, Nueva School Eric Herman–Kporha Karin Hochrainer, Weill Cornell Medical College Wendy Innis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Kelly Isbell, KeViRx Inc. Aliyah Jenkins, Arizona State University Emma Kane, Clark University Hannah Kramer, Pacific Nutritional Foods Ahmed Lawan, University of Alabama in Huntsville |
Rebekah Martinez, Arizona State University Elizaveta Minina, Lomonosov Moscow State University Joshua Mitchell, University of Wisconsin–Madison Alex Moon, New Mexico State University Anya Morozov, University of Iowa Cristian Munteanu, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy Daniel Norrod, Tennessee Technological University Lauren Ortega, Stetson University Violeta Pacheco, University of Houston Eva Plankey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Charan Kumar Ramineni, Thermo Fisher Scientific Celeste Rodriguez, U.S. Department of Agriculture Gilbert Salloum, Harvard University Avdar San, City University of New York Graduate Center David Sandstrom, University of Maryland Jees Sebastian, New Jersey Medical School Makeda Smalls, Rutgers University-Camden Ana Sordo, Northeastern University Benjamin Stein, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ji Sun, St Jude Children's Research Hospital Hendra Susanto, Universitas Negeri Malang Austin Szuminsky, University of Pittsburgh Danielle Talbot, University of Iowa Kanwal Tariq, Stockholm University Andrew Thorne, University of Calgary Steve Thorne, Copernican Project, Berkeley Vanina Toffessi Tcheuyap, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Matthias Truttmann, University of Michigan Edward Twomey, Johns Hopkins University Sabrina Van Ravenstein, Vanderbilt University Rachel VanKeulen, Minnesota State University, Mankato Michele Vitolo, University of Maryland, Baltimore Emma Vontalge, Vanderbilt University Wei Wang, Johns Hopkins University George Watase, Whitehead Institute/Howard Hughes Medical Institute Randolph Watnick, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Dawn Wetzel, University of Texas southwestern Can Yilgor, University of California, Los Angeles Pengchun Yu, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Asimina Zisi, Karolinska Institutet |
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