Elisabetta Ullu

Elisabetta Ullu, Ph.D., professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and of cell biology, was named the winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s (ASBMB) inaugural Alice and C.C. Wang award. Ullu received the award for her laboratory’s work with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, to uncover a novel mechanism of gene silencing known as RNA interference. The award honors Ching Chung (“C.C.”) Wang, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. Ullu received her Ph.D. from the University of Rome in 1973 and took a position at Yale in 1984. Ullu will receive her award in April during the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, where she will deliver the award lecture. The award consists of $35,000 for use by the recipient’s research laboratory, a plaque, and travel expenses for the recipient to attend and speak at the ASBMB annual meeting.