The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School educates and trains undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-graduate students in the areas of cell biology, embryology, neurobiology, organogenesis and developmental biology. The history of the department is a fascinating one.
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Congratulations To:
Michael Hortsch and Sun-Kee Kim who have been selected as an inaugural members of the League of Educational Excellence.
2012/2013 Bradley M. Patten Graduate Research Scholarship Awardees: Matt Kortus, Briana Rockich & Danielle Rux.
Lori Longeway & Kristen Hug on receiving a Making A Difference award.
Jiandie Lin the 2012 winner of the Dean's Faculty Basic Science Research Award.
Michael Hortsch on his 2012 Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Sun-Kee Kim on his 2011 Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award.
Yukiko Yamashita has won the prestigious MacArthur award
Jun-Lin Guan and Lois Weisman are among newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Bing Ye has been named a 2010 Pew Scholar, along with 20 other outstanding early to mid-career biomedical scientists. In addition, he has been awarded a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience.
Brandon Carpenter, has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants for 2011-2012.
Mo Weng (Lee Lab) recepient of a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2011-2012 and Rackham Conference Travel Grant.
Ajay Prakash for earning an F30 NRSA grant award from the NIH
Stef Linn (Barald lab) has received the Outstanding GSI Award!

Ben Allen
Richard Altschuler
Kate Barald
Scott Barolo
Alphonse Burdi
Walter Castelli
A. Kent Christensen
William Dauer
Marina Di Magliano
Andrzej Dlugosz
James Douglas Engel
Stephen Ernst
Xing Fan
Diane Fingar
Philip Gage
Roman Giger
Jun-Lin Guan
Deborah Gumucio
Zhe Han
Peter Hitchcock
Graham Rex Holland
Michael Hortsch
Tomonori Hosoya
Patrick Hu
Ajit Joglekar
Pentti Jokelainen
Sun-Kee Kim
Cheng-Yu Lee
Kim-Chew Lim
Jiandie Lin
Margaret Lomax
Ivan Maillard
James McNamara
Kentaro Nabeshima
Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan
Sue O'Shea
Osamu Tanabe
Billy Tsai
Kristen Verhey
Lois Weisman
Deneen Wellik
Michael Welsh
Yukiko Yamashita
Bing Ye
Yuan Zhu