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Rapé Lab

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molecular mechanisms of cell fate specification in development and disease; molecular glues and induced protein degradation as new therapeutic options

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linkhttp://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/rape/ calendar_today30-01-2015 04:04:28

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Thank you to SPARK NS for helping us turn the ubiquitin system against Parkinson's Disease! Kudos to UC Berkeley MCB Molecular Therapeutics Initiative Molecular Therapeutics Initiative student Srividya Chandrasekhar and postdoc Josh Sheetz for their groundbreaking work! sparkns.org/programs/proje…

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One of the best things of teaching (and doing research) at UC Berkeley is our environment. Huge thanks to Arnav Metha of The Column Group, who taught our Molecular Therapeutics Initiative grad students the ins and out of clinical trials!

One of the best things of teaching (and doing research) at <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> is our environment. Huge thanks to Arnav Metha of The Column Group, who taught our <a href="/MTI_Berkeley/">Molecular Therapeutics Initiative</a> grad students the ins and out of clinical trials!
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Huge thank you to Leon Chen, Partner at The Column Group, for teaching our #MolecularTherapeutics graduate students the ins and outs of biotech today! UC Berkeley 🙏

Huge thank you to Leon Chen, Partner at The Column Group, for teaching our #MolecularTherapeutics graduate students the ins and outs of biotech today! <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a>  🙏
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Congratulations to this year's MTI innovation awardees! Including UC Berkeley MCB graduate student Rumi Sherriff, who came up with an amazing idea to harness ubiquitin for therapeutic benefit #MolecularTherapeutics 💪

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We are pleased to announce that NRIX’s Chief Scientific Officer, Gwenn Hansen, Ph.D., is a guest speaker at the AACR-CICR Working Group Town Hall being held during the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting on Monday, April 28, 2025, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. CT. bit.ly/41LqxGd

We are pleased to announce that NRIX’s Chief Scientific Officer, Gwenn Hansen, Ph.D., is a guest speaker at the <a href="/AACR/">AACR</a>-CICR Working Group Town Hall being held during the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting on Monday, April 28, 2025, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. CT.

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$NRIX’s Dir. of Preclinical Pharmacology Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Borodovsky, Ph.D., will present a poster highlighting preclinical data from Nurix’s BRAF degrader NRX-0305 at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting on Mon, Apr 28, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CT. Check out the poster session!

$NRIX’s Dir. of Preclinical Pharmacology Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Borodovsky, Ph.D., will present a poster highlighting preclinical data from Nurix’s BRAF degrader NRX-0305 at the 2025 <a href="/AACR/">AACR</a> Annual Meeting on Mon, Apr 28, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CT.

Check out the poster session!
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$NRIX’s Exec. Dir. of Medicinal Chemistry, Wylie Palmer, Ph.D., will present a poster highlighting Nurix’s BTK degrader NX-5948 at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CT. If you’re attending #AACR2025, check out the poster session.

$NRIX’s Exec. Dir. of Medicinal Chemistry, Wylie Palmer, Ph.D., will present a poster highlighting Nurix’s BTK degrader NX-5948 at the 2025 <a href="/AACR/">AACR</a> Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. CT.

If you’re attending #AACR2025, check out the poster session.
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Ryan Rountree Nurix Therapeutics sharing data from their Aurora A #PROTAC program delivering lead NRX-4972 with high selectivity over Aurora B, CRBN-dependency, oral bioavailability & in vivo efficacy. #AACR25 AACR

Ryan Rountree <a href="/Nurix_Tx/">Nurix Therapeutics</a> sharing data from their Aurora A #PROTAC program delivering lead NRX-4972 with high selectivity over Aurora B, CRBN-dependency, oral bioavailability &amp; in vivo efficacy. #AACR25 <a href="/AACR/">AACR</a>
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Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and Molecular Therapeutics Initiative member Markita Landry on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship! So cool to work with such amazing colleagues on a daily basis! news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/22/two…

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Excited to host Brent Stockwell for a seminar tomorrow in the UC Berkeley MCB Molecular Therapeutics Series! If you are on campus come by for an exceptional seminar on recent advances on our understanding and targeting of #ferroptosis! 😀

Excited to host <a href="/bstockwell/">Brent Stockwell</a> for a seminar tomorrow in the <a href="/berkeleyMCB/">UC Berkeley MCB</a> Molecular Therapeutics Series! If you are on campus come by for an exceptional seminar on recent advances on our understanding and targeting of #ferroptosis! 😀
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🧠 What if we could see depression at the molecular level - and shut it off at the source? 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee Dr. Ehud Isacoff is developing FRET-based screens to find precise modulators of glutamate receptors - a new path to fast-acting antidepressants. The future of

🧠 What if we could see depression at the molecular level - and shut it off at the source?

2025 MTI Innovator Awardee Dr. Ehud Isacoff is developing FRET-based screens to find precise modulators of glutamate receptors - a new path to fast-acting antidepressants.

The future of
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🧫 What if cancer’s most essential machinery had never been drugged - simply because it was too complex? 2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Jim Hurley is pioneering a new wave of cancer therapeutics by targeting the ESCRT system - a core survival pathway in dividing cells. #MTIAwards

🧫 What if cancer’s most essential machinery had never been drugged - simply because it was too complex?

2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Jim Hurley is pioneering a new wave of cancer therapeutics by targeting the ESCRT system - a core survival pathway in dividing cells.

#MTIAwards
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Excited that our work revealing the structure and function of the monster stress response silencing factor, the E3 ligase SIFI, is now out! Congratulations to the most amazing team of Zhi Yang, Diane Haakonsen, Michael Heider and Sam Witus! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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🌍What if we could paralyze parasites - without harming human cells? 2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Matt Welch is targeting kinesin motor proteins in Trypanosoma brucei to develop new therapies for African sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases. New hope for the world’s most

🌍What if we could paralyze parasites - without harming human cells?

2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Matt Welch is targeting kinesin motor proteins in Trypanosoma brucei to develop new therapies for African sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases.

New hope for the world’s most