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Brooks, Gitai, Krienen and Skinnider win prestigious NIH awards
Oct. 10, 2025

Every year, the National Institutes of Health selects a handful of researchers performing innovative blue-sky scientific research to receive funding through its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program(Link is external).

Nobel laureate John Hopfield, an emeritus Princeton professor…

Gabriel Moore presented with inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Award
April 1, 2025

Graduate Student Gabriel Moore, a member of the Gitai lab, was presented with the first annual Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy award by D&I Committee Chair, Associate Professor Mohamed Donia

Gitai, Murphy, and Ploss elected to 2023 AAAS Fellows
April 18, 2024

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced today the newly elected 2023 AAAS Fellows, and three were elected from the Department of Molecular Biology!

Congratulations to Zemer Gitai, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Professor of…

Gitai Elected into American Academy of Microbiology
March 11, 2024

Congratulations to Zemer Gitai, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and Professor of Molecular Biology, on his election into the 2024 class of the American Academy of Microbiology!

Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original…

Singling out a bacterium from the crowd
Sept. 11, 2023

Three Princeton laboratories teamed up to develop a method for studying gene expression patterns of individual bacteria in unprecedented detail.

Bacteria are nearly ubiquitous and have tremendous impacts on human and ecological health. And yet, they remain largely mysterious to us. Princeton MOL faculty…

Zemer Gitai, Distinguished Innovator
Oct. 12, 2022

Molecular biologist Zemer Gitai has been named the winner of the Dean for Research Award for Distinguished Innovation. The award is given annually to honor a technology or innovation led by a Princeton faculty member whose scholarly activity and creative thinking provides solutions to societal challenges.  

Zemer…

Spinout from Gitai lab announces seed funding and hiring of CEO
March 6, 2022

 

ArrePath

(Link is external), a drug discovery spinout founded by Zemer Gitai, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology, has announced a seed round of $20 million to advance its proprietary, machine learning…

Gitai, Wuhr, Rabinowitz labs collaborate on mammalian metabolism research
Nov. 3, 2021

Michel Nofal, Tim Wang, Lifeng Yang, Connor S.R. Jankowski, Sophia Hsin-Jung Li, Seunghun Han, Lance Parsons, Alexander N. Frese, Zemer Gitai, Tracy G. Anthony, Martin Wühr, David M. Sabatini, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, GCN2 adapts protein synthesis to scavenging-dependent growth,

Three MOL Faculty win High Risk - High Reward NIH Research Awards
Oct. 5, 2021

MOL Professors Mohamed Abou Donia, Zemer Gitai and Coleen Murphy (joint with Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics) are 2021 recipients of the NIH's High Risk-High Reward

Zemer Gitai Receives Princeton Accelerator Fund Support
March 9, 2021

Seven technologies that address some of society’s biggest challenges — from foolproof antibiotics to low-cost water purification — will receive support for research and development through Princeton’s Intellectual…