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ANNOUNCEMENTS
CBC Invites New Catalyst Award Applications
The Catalyst Award program offers funding of up to $200K for new inter-institutional collaborative research projects. Spring 2012 Round proposal submission deadline: Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
(Catalyst RFA)
NEW PROGRAM: CBC Exploratory Workshops
Applications are now being accepted for CBC Exploratory Workshops - a new program for faculty members to encourage collaborative interactions across the CBC institutions.
(Exploratory Workshops Program Description and RFA)
Drug Delivery and Nanomaterials Mini-Symposium
Join the Center for Molecular Innovation & Drug Discovery (CMICD) for the mini-symposium on January 30, 2012, at Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, Northwestern University.
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NU, UChicago & UIC Events
TODAY: January 28, 2012
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Highlights
Learn about new funding opportunities, new facilities available to the CBC community, recent awards and upcoming educational events.
(CBC Newsletter, Volume 6, January 2012)
(posted January 23, 2012)
CBC Junior Investigator Daniel Dombeck receives a Whitehall Foundation Award
Dan Dombeck received a Whitehall Foundation grant for his proposal, Dissecting the Cellular Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Place Field Firing. The award is for $225,000 and will be distributed over three years. The Whitehall Foundation funds grants for life sciences research with an emphasis on funding young scientists.
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(posted January 18, 2012)
CBC announces 2011 Fall Round Catalyst Awards
» Alan Leff, MD (UChicago) and Terry Vanden Hoek, MD (UIC) for project: Design and Delivery of TAT Fusion Proteins for CPR
» Chuan He, PhD (UChicago) and Jung-Hyun Min, PhD (UIC) for project: Capturing Kinetically Labile Protein Assemblies on DNA
» David Eddington, PhD (UIC), Navdeep Chandel, PhD (NU) and Jalees Rehman, MD (UIC) for project: Oxygen Sensing in Endothelial Progenitor Cells
» Lucia Rothman-Denes, PhD (UChicago), Douglas Bishop, PhD (UChicago), Konrad Kording, PhD (NU) and Keith Tyo, PhD (NU) for project: A Molecular Chart Recorder
(posted January 13, 2012; updated January 24, 2012)
