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New Research Advances Fight Against Human Metapneumovirus
New findings could lead to a vaccine for one more respiratory virus.
UT Austin Leads in New Summary of Top “Degrees of the Future”
A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Jason McLellan Named Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
An infectious disease researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has been named a finalist for a major national science award.
Three Generations of Retrovirologists
LCID Assistant Director Dr. Jaquelin Dudley and her mentee, Dr. Wendy Kaichun Xu, along with Dr. Dudley's mentor, Dr. Harold Varmus of Weil Cornell Medicine...
Frog Pandemic
Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.
Texas Scientist
UT Austin Harnesses Power of Biology in Partnership with Army Research Laboratory
Inside the "biological foundry" at the Army Research Lab's ARL-South partnership on the campus of UT Austin
McLellan Honored for Contributions to COVID-19 Vaccines
Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award
Department of Molecular BIosciences
Jason McLellan Named Texas Inventor of the Year
For his role in biomedical research linked to the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, the professor of molecular biosciences won the award given annually by the State Bar of Texas's Intellectual Property Section in recognition of an individual whose invention "has significantly impacted the Texas economy."
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Our Immune Systems Blanket the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein with Antibodies
Most antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 circulating in the blood target areas of the viral spike protein outside the receptor binding domain, or RBD
