Faculty

Moving labs can be a stressful time for any researcher. For integrative biology professor Cara Brook, her July arrival at UC Berkeley was complicated by the sudden loss of nearly half a million dollars in federal funding.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) eliminated a portion of her innovative research award...

Bats attract many unflattering myths, but one aspect is true: the diseases they carry are extremely virulent. Still, Cara Brook, a disease ecologist who spends two to three months a year in Madagascar, loves her fruit bat subjects. By studying bat viruses, she is able to protect both them and us.

Molly Ohainle was growing up in the Bay Area when the AIDS crisis hit. She lost both of her uncles to HIV. Now, she researches HIV as a professor of immunology and molecular medicine at UC Berkeley.

Medical treatments of HIV have advanced considerably in the last few decades, but Ohainle stresses that there is still so much we don’t know about the rapidly evolving virus. She spoke with UC Berkeley writer Alexander Rony...

Discover how CRISPR, a technology co-created by a UC Berkeley professor, is being used to transform medicine.

A sickle is a crescent-shaped blade once used to harvest wheat. When red blood cells take on that same curved shape, it signals sickle cell disease –– an inherited condition that causes cells to become stiff and sticky, blocking blood flow and triggering episodes of severe, stabbing pain known as vaso-occlusive crises.

Sickle cell disease affects more than 100,000 people in the United States, with an outsized impact on the Black community, and an estimated 8...