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  • Two L’ORÉAL 2015 For Women In Science Fellows Affiliated with Biosciences

    Two L’ORÉAL 2015 For Women In Science Fellows Affiliated with Biosciences

    L’Oréal USA announced the five recipients of the 2015 For Women in Science Fellowship, which honors female scientists at critical stages of their career with $60,000 fellowships to advance their postdoctoral research. Two of the five winners, Sarah Richardson and Claire Robertson, are researchers in the Biological Systems & Engineering Division.

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  • Keasling Wins Israel’s Top Prize in Alternative Fuels

    Keasling Wins Israel’s Top Prize in Alternative Fuels

    Jay Keasling, Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has been named by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a winner of this year’s Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation.

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  • Berkeley Lab Signs CRADA with City of Nanjing

    Berkeley Lab Signs CRADA with City of Nanjing

    As part of the Cooperative Research & Development Agreement with the Nanjing High-Tech Zone (NHZ), the Lab’s Gary Karpen, Mina Bissell, Bo Hang, Jian-Hua Mao, and Weiguo Zhang will help discover targets for mitigation or cure to promote product development in cancer-related fields. They met with the Nanjing mayor last month.

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  • JBEI Joins Elite 100/500 Club

    JBEI Joins Elite 100/500 Club

    The Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) is now a member of the elite “100/500 Club,” having filed its 100th patent application and published its 500th scientific paper. A DOE Bioenergy Research Center led by Berkeley Lab, JBEI’s main mission is to accelerate the development of advanced, next-generation biofuels.

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  • Berkeley Lab to Investigate Link between Thirdhand Smoke and Cancer

    Berkeley Lab to Investigate Link between Thirdhand Smoke and Cancer

    A group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers that includes Bo Hang of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division have been awarded $1.3 million for two sets of studies to better understand the health impacts of thirdhand smoke, the noxious residue that clings to virtually all indoor surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from […]

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