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2023 US News World Report ranking Best Medical Schools: 1. Johns Hopkins 2. Penn 3. Harvard 4. UCSF (tie) 4. Wash. U St Louis (tie)

Congratulations to our new members! Just announced! We are honoring the excellence of extraordinary leaders in an array of disciplines and professions. The first members were elected in 1781. Learn who was elected in 2023: amacad.org/news/2023-memb…

Four Feinberg Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/04/19/thr…

Join us today for the BMG Seminar Series Speaker Jian Jin! Hosted by Lu Wang. Lu Wang_Northwestern U #Discovery #protein #epigenetics #medicalresearch Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Tisch Cancer Institute

Happy to share Dr. Zibo Zhao’s Zibo Zhao fantastic work in Journal of Clinical Investigation demonstrating a link between epigenetics & metabolism for cancer therapy! This was a superb collaboration w/ Drs. Cao, Hashizume, Chandel and Ben-Sahra Lab jci.org/articles/view/… youtu.be/lxF0J4fDWiA

Investigators used #CRISPR to unravel the genes' role in tumor growth. Findings revealed that MLL3 and MLL4 knockout cells increased purine production, a crucial component for DNA and RNA. ➡️ spr.ly/6018OCHYO

Online Now: Distinct layers of BRD4-PTEFb reveal bromodomain-independent function in transcriptional regulation dlvr.it/Ss4RQr

Northwestern University is now accepting nominations for its $250,000 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. The annual prize will be awarded in 2024. Click the link for more information and where to nominate! #KimberlyPrize2024 news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/08/09/nor…

Delighted to announce, for his fundamental discoveries with broad impact on biochemistry, biology & medicine, Dr. Craig Crews Craig Crews is the 2024 recipient of the #KimberlyPrize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics awarded by SQE Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine bit.ly/47JFnyT

A wonderful Shilatifard's lab reunion dinner at Keystone Symposia on Epigenetics and Cancer in Santa Fe! We missed our current and former colleagues whom were not at the meeting Northwestern BMG and SQE Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Andrea Piunti Shimaa Soliman Bercin K Cenik Lu Wang_Northwestern U Brianna Monroe #KSCancerEpi24

Very excited to share our latest work on the function of POU2F3/POU2AF2 in mediating SWI/SNF-dependent transcription in small cell lung cancer nature.com/articles/s4146…

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that inhibiting a chromatin remodeling complex associated with a particular gene in small-cell #LungCancer cells may decrease cancer cell differentiation and tumor growth, per Nature Communications. spr.ly/6016wcdnI

Join us today for the BMG Seminar Speaker Dr. Kapil Bhalla! Hosted by Dr. Lu Wang. Lu Wang_Northwestern U #epigenetics #research #AML Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nominations for Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics for 2025 is now open! news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/08/12/nom… Northwestern BMG and SQE Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern ASBMB Genetics Society of America AAAS ASCI

Excited to share our latest work, showing GATA6 is a critical regulator in colorectal cancer and 3D genome organization. Led by Huijue, Zoe and thanks to our wonderful collaborators Lu Wang_Northwestern U and Dr. Guanyu Yang. Lurie Cancer Center Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Have you ever wondered why we have testis specific genes & what happens if their mechanism of silencing is misregulated in other cell types. Well, superb study by Bin Zhang in collaboration with Lu Wang_Northwestern U showed that such ectopic expression can drive cancer & can be targeted for

Read about some of our faculty’s effort at Northwestern Medicine Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in developing targeted therapeutics towards human disease! Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern BMG and SQE magazine.nm.org/2025/02/26/dec…

The Lurie Cancer Center (LCC) went thru competing renewal of NCI designation. For a 2nd time we got "exceptional" ranking. The NCI site visit team gave a "perfect exceptional" (equivalent to 10). LCC is one of few in the nation and the only one in IL to ever achieve exceptional status.

Join us today for the BMG Seminar Speaker Dr. Christopher R. Vakoc! Christopher Vakoc Hosted by Dr. Lu Wang Lu Wang_Northwestern U #epigenetics #Cancer Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory