CBC ANNOUNCEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS Archives (2012)
Unraveling the Mysteries of Life: Recognizing the Life of Jon Widom
Jonathan Widom Symposium will be held on Friday, March 16, 2012 at James Allen Center at NU, Evanston Campus. Registration is required.
(symposium website)
(posted February 22, 2012)
POSITION OPEN
Program Coordinator for the CBC at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Application deadline: March16, 2012.
(posted February 16, 2012)
(Job description)
Protein-driven Strategies for Drug Discovery
A mini-symposium organized by NU Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery (CMIDD) will be held on February 22, 2012 at Lurie Medical Research Center, Northwestern University (Chicago Campus). Registration requested by Monday, February 20, 2012.
(symposium website)
(posted February 7, 2012)
Join us in welcoming the Class of 2012 CBC Scholars
A welcoming lunch for the new class of CBC Scholars was held on January 16, 2012 at Markethouse Restaurant in downtown Chicago.
(full text)
(posted February 7, 2012)
Update on Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM)
The Technology Transfer Offices at UChicago, NU, UIC and iBIO Institute® co-founded and launched the Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) in November 2010. CIM’s goal is to connect experienced entrepreneurs, executives and domain experts with innovative academic scientists whose research and associated technologies, has the potential to be commercialized.
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UPCOMING CIM SEMINAR: Introducing the Chicago Innovation Mentors Fellowship Program
Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:00 PM, at UChicago
(posted February 7, 2012)
Volume 6, January 2012
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.
(full text)
(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)
CBC Invites New Catalyst Award Applications
The CBC’s Catalyst Award program offers funding of up to $200K for one- or two-year new inter-institutional collaborative research projects. Spring 2012 Round online submission will open Monday, February 27, 2012. Proposal submission deadline is Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
(Catalyst RFA)
(posted January 11, 2012)