UCLA Life Scientists named 2013 Sloan Fellow

Yi Xing, an associate professor in the department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and a member of UCLA’s Institute for Molecular Medicine is among a select group of young scientists to receive a 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Newly identified natural protein blocks HIV, other deadly viruses

Graduate student Su-Yang Liu and Genhong Cheng, a professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics worked alongside collaborators to identify a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used against deadly human pathogenic viruses such as HIV, Ebola, and Rift Valley Fever.