The highest honor bestowed by the University of Michigan Medical School was presented to Eric Fearon, MD, PhD as he received the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award. Given to an extraordinary leader in research whose scientific contributions are pivotal in advancing their field of scientific knowledge, this award also recognizes excellence in teaching, mentoring and service to the institution at large.
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The 2nd Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium, “Molecules and Machines”, was held on Friday, September 18, 2015, at the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building.
The University of Michigan Protein Folding Diseases Initiative (PFDI), lead by Drs. Andrew Lieberman and Henry Paulson, seeks to connect the diverse campus-wide expertise on disorders of abnormal protein accumulation and perturbations in “protein quality control.”