Postdoctoral Position Available in Liver Cancer Research We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work in our liver cancer team examining the role of BNIP3 and NIX in modulating mitophagy and metabolism in the liver and how disruption of these mechanisms...

  Saying goodbye and thanks for all your hard work to summer undergraduate researcher, Ben Sachs who heads back to his sophomore year in college. Became a western wizard, RNA extraction, qPCR and mouse log management all mastered! An extra pair of hands for Thea...

Second year Macleod Lab graduate student in the Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition program passes her qualifying exam with flying colors and is now officially entered into candidacy for her PhD. Well done Leah on a beautiful presentation, some really novel...

Our work showing a role for BNIP3 in suppressing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) via turnover of lipid with mitochondria is published in Science Advances. Featured on the journal's website and on Biomedical picture of the day (http://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2022/12/3)!...

Enjoying a lab summer evening dinner at Nellas in Hyde Park - the best pizza in Chicago and that is quite the claim!

The last Saturday in August each year, the amazing Ginger Rugai and her team of fearless women organize a softball tournament in Beverly/Evergreen Park/Mount Greenwood neighborhoods to raise money for breast cancer research. The over 50 teams compete in a knockout...

Dr. Macleod presents our research at a major symposium on “Autophagy & Cancer” at the Annual Meeting of the AACR in Philadelphia chaired by Dr. Andrew Thorburn (UC Denver) and including Drs. Lorenzo Galluzzi (Weill Cornell) and Ravi Amaravadi (UPenn).

2016 was quite the year for graduating PhDs from the Macleod Lab - 5 total including Lauren Drake (Molecular Pathology), Marina Sharifi (MSTP/Cancer Biology), Erin Mowers (MSTP/Cancer Biology), Aparajita Chourasia (Cancer Biology) and Michelle Boland (Molecular...

Committee on Cancer Biology graduate students and CCB chair (Macleod) and former chair (Greene) dressed up in their best finery at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Chicago to raise money for research at a private auction of valuable donated goodies (golf trips,...