News

2026

March 2026 – Check out our new publication in Nature Metabolism on an atlas of folate in tissues and its role in metabolism Research highlight in the Biochem department, IPIB program Also, a Behind the Paper write-up authored by Jack Williams.
March 2026 – Check out our preprint on bioRxiv on the role of the gut microbiome in metabolizing methotrexate into an anti-inflammatory metabolite
March 2026 – Check out our new publication in Molecules on a systematic pipeline for design and evaluation of TGR5 agonists for diabetes
March 2026 – Congratulations to Juyeong Cho for winning the E.W. Hopkins Biochemistry Graduate Fellowship
March 2026 – Congratulations to Jack Williams and Haania Khan for winning the 1^st and 2^nd prizes respectively for best poster presentation at the Nutrition and Metabolism Poster Session
February 2026 – Matthew Kim for winning the 2026 ASBMB travel award
February 2026 – Congratulations to Daehan Kim for winning the 2026 ASBMB travel award and the undergraduate research award
February 2026 – Congratulations to Haania Khan for winning the Metabolism and Nutrition Training Program (MANTP) NIH T32 fellowship
January 2026 – Congratulations to Juyeong Cho for winning the Study Abroad Scholarship from Mogam Science Scholarship Foundation
January 2026 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Luiz Lopez, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Biochemistry graduate in lab as a post-bac researcher

September 2025 – Congratulations to Matthew Kim for winning the Best Poster Award in the 2025 Frontiers in Metabolism Conference
September 2025 – Congratulations to Matthew Kim for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2025 Integrated Program in Biochemistry Retreat
August 2025 – Congratulations to Juyeong Cho for winning the Korean Honor Scholarship
May 2025 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Katya Maeder (ARISE), our high school intern for a summer research opportunity
May 2025 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Lauren Quarmby, a University of North Texas undergraduate student for a summer research opportunity
May 2025 – Congratulations to Juyeong Cho for winning the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Ruth Dickie Research Scholarship
April 2025 – Jack Williams’ research was chosen for a poster presentation in the Wisconsin State Capitol for University of Wisconsin-Madison day
April 2025 – Check out our new publication in Nature Metabolism with Snehal’s postdoc lab at Harvard Medical School, and collaborators at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital
March 2025 – Congratulations to Juyeong Cho and Jack Williams for winning the 1^st and 2^nd prizes respectively for best poster presentation at the Nutrition and Metabolism Poster Session

December 2024 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes graduate student Haania Khan from the IPiB program!
September 2024 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes undergraduate student Amanda Han from the Chemical Engineering program!
September 2024 – Congratulations to Matthew Kim for receiving the Chemical Biology NIH T32 fellowship
August 2024 – Congratulations to Nicole Wicker for receiving the Aging and Aging Biology NIH T32 fellowship
August 2024 – Check out our new publication in Cell Host & Microbe with Snehal’s postdoc lab at Harvard Medical School, and collaborators at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
July 2024 – Congratulations to Jack Williams for receiving the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) NIH T32 fellowship
July 2024 – We received the Pfizer Global ASPIRE grant to study the mechanisms underlying the role of the microbiome in fatty liver disease
June 2024 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Xavier Diebold (ARISE) and Emma Campbell, our high school interns for a summer research opportunity
May 2024 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Molly Conroy, a University of Notre Dame undergraduate student for a summer research opportunity
May 2024 – Ireland Weigel graduated with a degree in Biochemistry, and is now a Research Associate at Thermo Fisher
January 2024 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes undergraduate student Nandini Prasanna Anantha from the Biomedical Engineering program!

December 2023 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes graduate students Matthew Kim, Nicole Wicker, and Jack Williams from the IPiB program, and Juyeong Cho from the Nutrition & Metabolism program!
December 2023 – Snehal Chaudhari received the NIDDK R00 grant for 3 years.
August 2023 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes undergraduate student Ireland Wiegel from the Biochemistry program!
August 2023 – UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry welcomes Snehal Chaudhari!
July 2023 – The Chaudhari lab welcomes Becky Danner!
June 2023 – Snehal Chaudhari received the UW-Madison – Washington University Diabetes Research Center Pilot grant in collaboration with David Harris in the Department of Surgery at UW-Madison and Rachana Bhimanwar in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at DVPVP, India.
Research spotlight: UW-Madison Biochem on X, UW-Madison Biochem and Surgery news.
January 2023 – Snehal Chaudhari received year 2 funding toward the NIDDK K99/R00 Pathway to Independence grant, scheduled to begin the R00 funding in August. Read more here.