Success Stories 2014

Success stories feature research accomplishments attributed to CBC funding.


Scroll down or select a different year:

2021  I  2020  I  2019  I  2018  I  2017  I  2016  I  2015  I  2014  I  2013  I  2012  I  2011 I  2010
2014

December 15, 2014
success story
Stunning Zinc Fireworks when Egg Meets Sperm
Understanding of zinc’s role in healthy embryos could improve in vitro fertilization
CBC Spark Award (2009) Thomas O’Halloran and Vinayak Dravid (NU), and Jonathan Silverstein (UChicago)
▸ Read more


November 14, 2014
success story
Anti-Dicing Nuclease, a New Kid on the Block that Could Help Combat Cancer
CBC Recruitment Award (2010) to Zain Paroo (UIC)
▸ Read more


October 29, 2014
success story
Activity in Dendrites is Critical in Memory Formation
Study sheds light on why we might remember some things and not others
CBC Recruitment Award (2010) to Daniel Dombeck (NU)
▸ Read more


October 22, 2014
success story
Notable Recent Publications Attributed to the CBC Funding
▸ Read more


June 23, 2014
success story
Self-Assembling Nanomaterials to Boost Biomedical Applications
CBC Lever Award (2010) to Joel Collier (UChicago), Chad Mirkin and Milan Mrksich (NU), and David Eddington (UIC)
▸ Read more


April 18, 2014
success story
How Immune Cells Tell Healthy and Diseased Cells Apart
CBC Scholar Award (2012) to Greg Tietjen (UChicago)
▸ Read more


April 1, 2014
success story
High-Throughput Screen Promises to Combat C. difficile
CBC HTS Award (2013) to Arnon Lavie and Michael Caffrey (UIC) and Wayne Anderson (NU)
▸ Read more


March 24, 2014
success story
Study Reveals a Major Mechanism Driving Kidney Cancer Progression
Misplaced protein provides promising drug target
CBC Recruitment Award (2006) to Kevin White (UChicago)
▸ Read more


March 18, 2014
success story
Environmental Factors Tied to Autism and Intellectual Disability
CBC Lever Award (2012) to Andrey Rzhetsky (UChicago), Edwin Cook (UIC), and Richard Morimoto (NU)
▸ Read more


March 13, 2014
success story
Of Unstable Genomes, Lymphomas, Mice and Men
CBC Catalyst Award (2014) to Fotini Gounari (UChicago) and Steven Rosen (NU)
▸ Read more


January 3, 2014
success story
Sortilins Get a New Delivery Route
Lysosomal sorting receptors transport cargo to secretory granules in Tetrahymena
CBC Catalyst Award (2010) to Aaron Turkewitz (UChicago) and Scott Brady (UIC)
▸ Read more