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January 23, 2012
Happy New Year from the CBC!
2012 brings the launch of a new initiative, Exploratory Workshops. Check out the RFA and let the CBC help you assemble a multi-institutional group of colleagues to discuss how to push forward the edges of your field with the goal of obtaining either CBC or external funding.
Learn about a new CBC Lever Award-funded facility, the Microenvironmental Control Foundry, that is up and running on the UIC campus. Spring 2012 Catalyst round electronic application submission opens in late February (March 7 deadline) and we hope to receive many proposals for innovative collaborative research projects.
The Lever Award program has been one of the most successful initiatives of the CBC. Levers offer matching grants to successful Center grants. A Lever match can help a Center grant win NIH funding and the Lever also benefits the wider community by providing resources to researchers who are not part of the Center. Learn about the two new Centers, matched with Lever Awards that were established in fall 2011. Take a few minutes to re-familiarize yourself with this powerful program, as well as the new Lever resources that will soon be available to the CBC community.
We are pleased to report that in the second half of 2011, 4 new Catalyst teams received awards and 9 new CBC Scholars joined the CBC community. On the biotechnology front, the CBC awarded support to the Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) program, which works with faculty interested in forming start-up companies.
Finally, the CBC has a wonderful tradition of presenting yearly symposia on timely and high-impact research. See a recap of the 2011 symposium, and mark your calendar for the 10th Annual CBC Symposium to be held on Friday, October 12, 2012.
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CBC Junior Investigator Daniel Dombeck receives a Whitehall Foundation Award
January 18, 2012
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.
Dan joined the Department of Neurobiology in February 2011 as an Assistant Professor and set up his laboratory on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. Dan was selected as one of six outstanding newly recruited Assistant Professors who had accepted faculty positions at CBC institutions to receive a CBC Junior Investigator Award.
(see also: Daniel Dombeck Receives Whitehall Award)
(Whitehall Foundation website)
CBC announces 2011 Fall Round Catalyst Awards
January 13, 2012 (updated January 24, 2012)
- 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
NEW PROGRAM: CBC Exploratory Workshops
November 22, 2011
Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) is launching a new program to support small workshops for faculty members to encourage and support collaborative interactions across new boundaries among investigators in CBC institutions. These workshops are intended to stimulate new CBC Catalyst grant submissions, Program Project Grants from the NIH, and eventually CBC Lever Awards associated with large, multi-investigator NIH grants. Applications are now being accepted for CBC Exploratory Workshops.
CBC-affiliated researchers who would be interested in serving as scientific organizers of a workshop are encouraged to apply. For further information on the workshop program and instructions for applying see the CBC Exploratory Workshops Program Description. With questions feel free to contact CBC Associate Director
(Exploratory Workshops Program Description)
(Exploratory Workshops RFA)