Petek Ballar, who graduated last fall from Dr. Shengyun Fang's laboratory, won the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award from the Third Intracellular Proteolysis Meeting, a joint meeting of the INPROTEOLYS network and the UK Biochemical Society held in Tenerife, Spain on March 5-7, 2008. Her poster based on her thesis work was entitled "The role of a novel p97/VCP-interacting motif (vim) in ER-associated degradation." The award included a cash prize and a nice write-up on the Biochemical Journal's web page.