This is why initiatives at universities, like #MolecularTherapeutics at UC Berkeley, are so critically important to lay the groundwork for new medicines.

The last #MolecularTherapeutics seminar of the 2023/24 season UC Berkeley MCB was yet another highlight. Thanks so much to all for coming, and thanks to Vishva Dixit Genentech for a brilliant seminar!

Congratulations Clemons Lab @Caltech !!!

Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics affiliate Hurley Lab !!!

What a treat!!! Gwenn Hansen, CSO of Nurix Therapeutics, teaching the #MolecularTherapeutics students of MCB220 at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley MCB the ins and outs of drug discovery - from finding your molecule to seeing it help patients in the clinic!

Huge congratulations to Nurix Therapeutics for providing the first clinical evidence for degrader efficacy in the brain - including a complete response in primary central nervous system lymphoma!!! A dream team tackling a huge medical need. 👏💪 #AACR2024

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Yes! Degrade proteins in the brain if you can!

Congratulations Heran Darwin, PhD !!

Congratulations!

Nurix’s CSO, Gwenn Hansen, Ph.D., will join other industry experts at the Pediatric Precision Medicine Cancer Care Summit to discuss the latest breakthroughs in precision medicine, including using targeted protein degradation to treat cancer.

Learn more: bit.ly/3ONVZy1

This will be an awesome meeting in a wonderful place. Thanks so much, Yifat, for organizing!

How to inhibit an E3 ligase - will be exciting!

Excited to announce the Molecular Therapeutics Initiative UC Berkeley, which in the age of #InducedProximity will turn exciting biology into new therapeutic modalities for patients in need. Thank you to our generous donor, who made this possible!

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Thank you nature for highlighting Diane Haakonsen 's work on stress response silencing in a Research Briefing!

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Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty Chris Chang and Berkeley Chemistry chair Dean Toste on their paper describing Trp-CLiC - labeling Trp residues to attach payloads to peptides or to detect Trp interactions in cells. Awesome.

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Congratulations to Nurix Therapeutics and patients alike!

Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty Ziyang Zhang and Kevan Shokat on their wonderful paper on targeting the G12D variant of K-Ras!

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⚡ATTN: Early career faculty scientists in basic biological and biomedical sciences! ⚡

Today, HHMI has launched a nationwide competition to select up to 30 early career science faculty to join the 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program cohort. 👇 hhmi.news/3OLmYtQ

Thank you Robert Sanders UC Berkeley for highlighting Diane Haakonsen, Michael Heider, Andrew Ingersoll and Sam Witus recent paper on stressed out cells!

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Liked Pfizer Inc. Super Bowl ad - mainly for the last frames. How can helping patients, especially kids, not energize you every single day?

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