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AI is expanding the boundaries of biological research. Will drug development follow?

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By Laura Counts
| haas.berkeley.edu
Protein illustration by Christoph Burgstedt/iStock A scant few years after a powerful artificial intelligence tool was hailed as a revolution that would transform drug discovery, a new UC Berkeley Haas study finds that Google’s AlphaFold2 has fundamentally broadened the landscape of scientific research by unlocking the structure of millions of proteins that had been too poorly understood to study.
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Jonathan Weigel named one of the World’s Best 40-Under-40 Graduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants

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By Laura Counts
| haas.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor Jonathan Weigel, who teaches business ethics to MBA students and studies how fragile states can build more accountable governance, has been named one of Poets & Quants’ “World’s Best 40-Under-40 Graduate Business Professors of 2026.” Weigel was selected from more than 1,700 nominations from students, administrators, and faculty members at business schools around the world. Nominees were evaluated on teaching, research, and business impact.
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Pioneer of modern financial instruments, UC Berkeley Haas Professor Nils Hakansson, dies at 88

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By Laura Counts
| haas.berkeley.edu
Professor Emeritus Nils H. Hakansson, known for his personal warmth and pioneering vision for financial markets that helped give rise to some of the most consequential investment instruments of the modern era, passed away in a car accident on April 17, 2026, in Sea Ranch, California. He was 88. UC Berkeley Haas Professor Nils Hakansson Hakansson, the Sylvan C.
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