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Posted: December 22, 2020
SUCCESS STORY
CBC Senior Investigator to lead CLP
Renown proteomics expert and CBC Senior Investigator Neil Kelleher to become Interim Director of Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), effective January 1, 2021
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Posted: December 22, 2020
News
17th Annual CBC Symposium Recap
Virtual Symposium on “Epigenetics & Disease” draws international attention and record attendance
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Posted: December 21, 2020
Opportunities
New Funding Opportunity
Cures Within Reach is excited to announce our new funding opportunity Request for Proposals (RFP), with up to $50,000 available for clinical repurposing trials impacting veterans in any disease area, including mental health, PTSD and brain injury. Clinical repurposing trials from any US-based institution impacting veterans are eligible. Proposal submissions due February 26, 2021.
▸ Read more
Posted: December 14, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
CBC COVID-19 Response Award recognized
Multi-institute collaborative team including Profs. Melody Swartz and Jeffrey Hubbell (UChicago), Evan Scott (NU), and Ying (Samuel) Hu (UIC), which received CBC COVID-19 Response Award is recognized by the Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center
▸ Read more
Posted: December 14, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
June 10-11 & 14-17, 2021
Virtual Event
Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
▸ BIO International Convention: BIO Digital
December 10, 2020
DIRECTOR’S CORNER
2020 Chicago VC Ecosystem Report
Chicago, the top U.S. city for exit value fueled by venture capital investment
▸ Read more
Posted: November 30, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
December 8, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures Part VII: Final Episode featuring Molly Bonakdarpour, Partner, Drive Capital
Posted: October 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
November 9, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC College of Pharmacy
▸ Partnering to Advance AI Research & Development
Posted: October 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
October 28, 2020
Virtual Event
NU Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP)
▸ 2020 CLP Core Crawl
Posted: October 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
November 4-5, 2020
Virtual Event
Argonne Leadership Institute
▸ Postdoctoral Research & Career Symposium
Posted: October 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
October 29-30, 2020
Virtual Event
Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI)
▸ Workshop: Dealing with COVID-19 in Theory and Practice
Posted: October 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
October 29, 2020
Virtual Event
International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN)
▸ 2020 IIN Virtual Symposium
October 2, 2020
CBC Newsletter, Vol. 30
Fall 2020 CBCeNews:
Updates regarding the upcoming 17th Annual CBC Symposium and announcing new 2020 awards in the following programs: CBC COVID-19 Response, Accelerator and Catalyst
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Posted: October 1, 2020
News
New CBC Accelerator Awards Announced
Featuring the newest recipients of CBC Accelerator Awards
The CBC is pleased to announce that three new CBC Accelerator Awards were granted in round 4 (Spring 2020) Accelerator Award application cycle. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: September 29, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: October 13, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Healthcare Innovation During a Pandemic: A Corporate VC Perspective
Featuring Dave Schulte, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, McKesson Ventures
Posted: September 29, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: October 19-22, 2020
Virtual Event
UIUC Research Park
▸ SBIR Week in the Midwest
Posted: September 28, 2020
Success Stories
Illinois “Researchers to Know 2020” announced
Featuring eight CBC-university scientists
Eight researchers from CBC universities among nineteen distinguished scientists named “Researchers to Know 2020” at Illinois’ universities. Congratulations!
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Posted: September 18, 2020
News
Chicago Biological Consortium Awards $1.5 Million for COVID-19 Research
Three multi-institutional teams of investigators from NU, UIC and UChicago will each receive $500,000 to pursue cutting-edge research
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Posted: September 9, 2020
News
New Catalyst Awards Announced, R29 (Spring 2020) Application Round
CBC awards three new collaborative, multi-institutional teams
▸ Read more
Posted: September 8, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: September 8, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part V
Featuring Geeta Vemuri, PhD, MBA, Founder of Agent Capital
Posted: August 19, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: September 16-17, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University
▸ Brain Science Institute Conference: Investing in Brain Disease Research
August 18, 2020
CBC Newsletter, Vol. 29
Summer 2020 CBCeNews:
Announcing the 17th Annual CBC Symposium: “Epigenetics & Disease”
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Posted: August 17, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: September 15, 2020
Virtual Event
Cures Within Reach
▸ CureAccelerator Live! for Chicago
Posted: August 17, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Supporting Chicago-centered entrepreneurialism
CBC Accelerator Award to Arnon Lavie, UIC, among early innovation grants that got a UIC spinoff company, Enzyme by Design, to a flying start
▸ Read more
Posted: August 2, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Could aberrant RNA splicing cause diabetes?
And, perhaps a more important question, could “fixing” the splicing help diabetic patients? CBC Awardee Joseph Bass, NU, senior author on a recent Genes and Development publication which was partially supported by a CBC Spark Award, explains
▸ Read more
Posted: July 28, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: August 11, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part IV
Featuring Shobha Parthasarathi, PhD, Vice President of External Innovation & New Ventures, Xontogeny
July 13, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
The RAS story, continued
More press about the recent PNAS article, written with the contributions from three CBC Awardees, Karla Satchell, David Gius and Marco Biancucci, NU, and reporting on the research jointly supported by the SickKids Proof-of-Principal Funding and a CBC Catalyst Award
▸ Read more
Posted: July 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: July 23-24, 2020
Virtual Event
NU NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
▸ Intro to Building Models Workshop
Posted: July 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: August 20, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC
▸ CCTS Research Summit: Innovative COVID-19 Pilot Research
Posted: July 10, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Coming after cancerogenic RAS
Three CBC Awardees, Karla Satchell, David Gius and Marco Biancucci, NU, contribute to the development of a novel technology with therapeutic potential that could significantly slow down RAS-dependent tumor growth
▸ Read more
Posted: July 7, 2020
COVID-19 Research
A “quick and easy” COVID-19 test
Featuring CBC Awardee–Jun Huang, UChicago
A UChicago team of scientists, including recent CBC Awardee Jun Huang, receives a grant to develop a hand-held device capable of simultaneous detection of both, the COVID-19-causing virus — SARS-CoV-2 — and the antibodies against it. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: June 30, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: July 14, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part Two
Featuring Jim Sullivan, Ph.D., Venture Partner with OrbiMed.
Posted: June 24, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: June 25, 2020
Virtual Event
Women in Bio (WIB)-Chicago
▸ Webinar – Embracing the Virtual World: A Women In Bio Netgiving Event
Posted: June 23, 2020
Success stories
Cite us — we’ll “cite” you back!
Featuring twenty-five (!) CBC Award Teams
Forty-one new publications attributed to twenty-five CBC Awards contribute to a total of 2566 publications that are the result of CBC-sponsored research to date. Congratulations, Awardees!
▸ Read more
Posted: June 12, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: September 10, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University
▸ HERSTORY Under the Microscope: Celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s 100 Year Legacy
5th Annual Women in Science and Healthcare (WiSH) Symposium
Posted: June 11, 2020
NEWS
Search open for Executive Director
The CBC has opened a search for a new Executive Director. The position is based on the Northwestern University Evanston Campus. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
▸ Download the Position Description (PDF)
▸ Apply
Posted: June 9, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcing a New Funding Opportunity: CBC COVID-19 Response Award
Key Dates:
Letter of Intent Due Date: July 1, 2020
Complete Application (Proposal) Due Date: August 1, 2020
Earliest Start Date: September 1, 2020
Funding Amount: at least three awards of $500,000 each
Award Period: Up to two years
Eligibility: Tenure-track / tenured faculty at CBC Institutions: Northwestern, UIC and UChicago
▸ CBC COVID-19 Response Award RFA
Posted: June 4, 2020
“In the News”
Could NAD-supplemented diet attenuate aging?
Featuring CBC Awardee–Joseph Bass, NU
It appears so, at least in mice, according to Joseph Bass, NU, senior author on a recent Molecular Cell publication which was partially supported by a CBC Spark Award. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: June 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: August 14, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC & Chicago Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group
▸ Chicago Mass Spec Day 2020
Posted: May 28, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: June 9, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part Two
Featuring Tom Shehab, Managing Partner, Arboretum Ventures
Posted: May 20, 2020
COVID-19 Research
A “quick and easy” COVID-19 test
Featuring CBC Awardees–Michael Jewett & Joshua Leonard, NU
This is a goal of NU scientists, including two past CBC awardees Michael Jewett and Joshua Leonard, who are co-PIs on a new NSF RAPID grant aiming to develop a one-stop infectious diseases testing device. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: May 20, 2020
COVID-19 Research
Will remdesivir-baricitinib combo synergize in fighting COVID-19?
Featuring CBC Member University–UIC
Kudos to CBC member institution — UIC — for continuing their efforts to find effective COVID-19 therapeutics!
▸ Read more
Posted: May 8, 2020
COVID-19 Research
Could vitamin D help reduce severity of COVID-19 symptoms?
Featuring CBC CBC Lever Awardee–Vadim Backman, NU
NU scientists led by a past CBC awardee Vadim Backman find a correlation between potential severe vitamin D deficiency and severity of complications and higher mortality rates among COVID-19 patients. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: May 6, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: May 20, 2020
Virtual Event
Women In Bio (WIB) – Chicago Chapter
▸ The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare
Posted: May 6, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: May 12, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Tales from a Midwest Early Stage VC
Featuring Scott Button, Managing Director of Venture Investors
Posted: April 27, 2020
COVID-19 Research
“Prevent the vent”
Featuring CBC Member University–UChicago
The UChicago Medicine doctors’ mantra — “prevent the vent” — appears to be working surprisingly well: Using a non-invasive method to provide oxygen helped 40% of COVID-19 patients avoid mechanical ventilation. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
April 17, 2020
DIRECTOR’S CORNER
The biotech living and the walking dead
A detailed look at the economic impact of university-licensed life science startups across the United States reveals vast differences in the effectiveness of different regions to create ventures and sustain them as viable entities.
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Posted: April 17, 2020
COVID-19 Research
The world is waiting…
Featuring CBC Member University–UChicago
…Is the ‘cliffhanger ending’ in yesterday’s STAT’s article reporting the very first preliminary data from a clinical trial designed to assess the potential of remdesivir to treat severely sick COVID-19 patients and performed at a CBC university hospital, UChicago Medicine. Congratulations!
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Posted: April 15, 2020
NEWS
New Catalyst Awards Announced, R28 (Fall 2019) Application Round
Featuring new CBC Catalyst Teams
The CBC is pleased to announce that four collaborating inter-institutional teams received Catalyst Awards in the R28 (Fall 2019) application round. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 14, 2020
COVID-19 Research
A gift of blood
Featuring CBC Member University–UChicago
A CBC member university — the UChicago Medicine — begins testing antiviral antibodies-containing plasma donated by recovered COVID-19 patients to see if it could help those still critically ill fight off the infection. THANK YOU!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 14, 2020
COVID-19 Research
3-D printer to the rescue
Featuring CBC Awardee–Chad Mirkin, NU
NU scientists, led by former CBC Lever Award recipient Chad Mirkin, employ their brand new technology to speedily produce facial shields — a crucial component of personal protective equipment (PPE) that literally shields health care providers working with the COVID-19 patients from the virus. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 10, 2020
COVID-19 Research
The very speech that struck the chord
Featuring CBC University Scientist–Emily Landon, UChicago
Looking back, Emily Landon, UChicago, might have been one of the major influencers behind the “flattening of the curve” and helping to save lives in Chicago, Illinois and beyond during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. THANK YOU!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 9, 2020
COVID-19 Research
NU and UIC launch COVID-19 drug trials
Featuring two CBC universities–NU & UIC
As part of a new international clinical drug trial, which currently involves 54 medical centers globally, two CBC universities — NU and UIC — begin to enroll COVID-19 patients to evaluate the clinical efficacy of the anti-viral drug remdesivir. Thank you!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 8, 2020
COVID-19 Research
What if the anti-COVID-19 meds could be produced 10 times faster than on average?
Featuring CBC Awardee–Michael Jewett, NU
That is a goal of CBC Awardee Michael Jewett, NU, who plans to employ bacterial extracts in order to scale up the new anti-SARS CoV-2 antibody bioengineering in vitro. Fingers crossed!
▸ Read more
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 14, 2020
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ The Role of Drug Repurposing in Treating COVID-19, Other Infectious Disease
Featuring Barbara Goodman, President and COO of Cures Within Reach & Clare Thibodeaux, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs with Cures Within Reach
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 9, 2020
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology
▸ Fighting COVID-19
Featuring Dr. Karla Satchell, professor of microbiology-immunology at NU Feinberg School of Medicine
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 7, 2020
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology
▸ Perceptions and Public Understanding of COVID-19
Featuring Alicia Frasier, MPH, of RTI International
Posted: March 31, 2020
COVID-19 Research
A heartwarming COVID-19 story
Scientists at UChicago, many with ties to the CBC, organized a cross-division multi-lab collaborative collection of personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to the UChicago Medicine Hospital fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. THANK YOU!
▸ Read more
Posted: March 27, 2020
COVID-19 Research
UChicago one of six founders of C3.ai DTI
Six research universities, including a CBC member university, UChicago, strike a new partnership — C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute — which will focus its most imminent efforts on combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Updated: March 27, 2020
Announcement
Upcoming CBC Accelerator Network (CBCAN) Meetings
▸ CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part I
(NOTE: will be held as a virtual meeting, details TBA)
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
▸ CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part II
(NOTE: will be held as a virtual meeting, details TBA)
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
More information coming soon!
Updated: March 27, 2020
Announcement
17th Annual CBC Symposium
▸ Epigenetics and Disease
SAVE THE DATE: October 30, 2020
LOCATION: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
355 East Erie, Chicago, IL 60611
ORGANIZERS: Jim Audia (Chair; Former CBC Executive Director), Lucy Godley (Co-Chair; CBC Scientific Director for UChicago) and Rick Morimoto (Co-Chair; CBC Interim Executive Director & CBC Scientific Director for NU).
SPEAKERS: Shelley Berger (UPenn), Peggy Goodell (Baylor College of Medicine), Chuan He (UChicago), Cigall Kadoch (Harvard/Dana Farber/Broad Institute), Danny Reinberg (NYU) and Ali Shilatifard (NU).
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS:
Registration and abstract submission portals are now OPEN and available from the symposium webpage (link below). Deadline: Friday, October 2, 2020 @ 5:00 PM.
Posted: March 26, 2020
COVID-19 Research
Of SARS CoV-2 RNA
CBC Awardee Chuan He, UChicago, refocuses his lab’s efforts to decode the role RNA modifications play in COVID-19. The CBC applauds.
▸ Read more
Posted: March 20, 2020
COVID-19 Research
NU team deciphers new COVID-19 protein complex
Hot off the press: Atomic structure of a novel SARS CoV-2 structural component, a protein complex called nsp10/16, mapped by NU scientists led by a CBC recent awardee, Karla Satchell. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: March 23, 2020
Opportunities
HHMI Opens New Program for Medically Trained Scientists
HHMI’s Medically Trained Scientists Program (MTS) seeks early career scientists with knowledge of human biology to move discovery science forward. MTS will ultimately invest up to $120 million in up to 40 fellows. MTS fellows are creative and highly committed individuals whose research will impact significant biological problems. Fellows are committed to careers in academic research and will receive long-term support as they transition through mentored postdoctoral training to independent faculty. Application due date August 11, 2020, 3:00 p.m. (ET).
▸ Learn more
Posted: March 20, 2020
Success stories
UIC 2019 Researcher and Innovator of the Year Awards Announced
Three UIC researchers with ties to the CBC, Stephanie Cologna, Laura Sanchez and Joanna Burdette, honored with the Researcher of the Year Rising Star in Basic Life Sciences Award. Congrats!
▸ Read more
Posted: March 12, 2020
Announcement
CBC operations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Please always check our website for current updates regarding key dates for CBC programming and upcoming educational events.
For consortium-university-specific guidelines and updates related to the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit the respective webpages at Northwestern, UChicago and UIC.
For local updates on COVID-19 visit City of Chicago website. For global updates, including government health guidelines, visit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resources Center (interactive map).
Updated: March 16, 2020
Opportunities
Cures Within Reach Funding Opportunities
Cures Within Reach has several new funding opportunity Requests for Proposals including those available to faculty members at the CBC universities:
- Up to $100,000 for clinical and up to $50,000 for preclinical repurposing research in Meniere’s disease (proposals due April 3, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in rare blood cancers (proposals due April 3, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in retinitis pigmentosa (proposals due April 3, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for repurposing research based in the Chicagoland area (proposals due June 1, 2020)
▸ Learn more and apply
▸ Serve as a Grant Reviewer
Posted: March 13, 2020
Success stories
Trap or release on-demand
Two CBC Awards are acknowledged in a recent Nanoscale publication for helping to build first-class sophisticated research infrastructure in the Greater Chicago region.
▸ Read more
Posted: March 12, 2020
Announcement
RFA: CBC Accelerator Award
▸ Next round of applications
CBC Accelerator Award is a milestone-driven award program (up to $250,000) focused on translational research toward therapeutics or associated biomarkers and diagnostics.
Round 4 (Spring 2020) LOIs submissions are CLOSED. Round 5 LOIs submission dates will be announced when they become available.
▸ Accelerator RFA
Posted: March 11, 2020
Success stories
On the heels of NOS
Yamuna Krishnan, UChicago, publishes in Nature Chemical Biology the results of her CBC Catalyst Award-supported research on the development of a novel tool enabling live tracking of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) subcellular localization and activity. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Updated: March 10, 2020
Opportunities
Cures Within Reach Funding Opportunities
Cures Within Reach has several new funding opportunity Requests for Proposals including those available to faculty members at the CBC universities:
- Up to $50,000 for repurposing research based in the Chicagoland area (proposals due June 1, 2020)
- Up to $100,000 for clinical and up to $50,000 for preclinical repurposing research in Meniere’s disease (proposals due March 20, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in rare blood cancers (proposals due March 6, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in retinitis pigmentosa (proposals due March 6, 2020)
▸ Learn more and apply
▸ Serve as a Grant Reviewer
Posted: March 10, 2020
Success stories
Making organs better for transplant
CBC Scholar Alum Greg Tietjen from UChicago, now Assistant Professor at Yale, researches new ways to help patients get the organs they need. Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Posted: March 5, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: April 16, 2020
UIC College of Medicine
▸ 3rd Annual Maternal and Infant Microbiome Symposium
Posted: March 4, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Atomic structure of Paramyxoviruses
Global Biodefense features the CBC Catalyst Award-supported work of to Yuan He, NU on a paramyxovirus 3D structure
▸ Read more
Posted: March 3, 2020
COVID-19 RESEARCH
The first unveiling of the COVID-19 coronavirus partial structure takes place in Chicago
Congratulations are due to a CBC affiliate, Andrzej Joachimiak, UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory and to recent CBC Accelerator Award recipient, Karla Satchell, NU.
▸ Read more
March 3, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Understanding viruses
A CBC Catalyst Award to Yuan He, NU, helps to decipher a paramyxovirus polymerase 3D structure; a CBC affiliate, Robert Lamb, NU, co-authors the publication
▸ Read more
Posted: March 2, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Entrepreneurial talent recognized!
CBC Entrepreneurial Fellow Eric Schiffhauer becomes Director of Drug Discovery Collaboration at the NU’s Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO). Congratulations!
▸ Read more
Updated: March 2, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT
Upcoming CBC Accelerator Network (CBCAN) Meetings
CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part I
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Discovery Partners Institute
200 South Wacker Drive, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part II
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Discovery Partners Institute
200 South Wacker Drive, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
More information coming soon!
Posted: February 24, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT
RFA: CBC Catalyst Award
CBC invites new applications
Catalysts are one-time incentive awards (up to $250,000), focused on basic biological/ biomedical research with transformative potential, made to collaborative teams with principals and other strong representation from at least two of the CBC institutions.Please note the application guidelines (RFA) have been revised effective January 6, 2020: the Catalyst Award program aims to support basic scientific discoveries that are cutting-edge, high-risk / high-reward and address fundamental research questions. Round 30 (Fall 2020) application submission deadline: September 11, 2020, @5PM.
▸ Catalyst RFA
Posted: February 18, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: April 30, 2020
UChicago Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
▸ 15th Annual Haselkorn Symposium: Imaging the molecular world of life
Featuring Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University
Posted: February 18, 2020
Director’s Corner
U of I System, DPI and IIN gifted another $10 million!
University of Illinois Board of Trustees Chairman Edwards and his wife, Anne, give $10 Million to the University of Illinois, half of which will go to U of I System’s DPI and IIN, adding momentum to the recently announced Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s $500 Million pledge to support the development of DPI.
▸ Read more
Posted: February 14, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Looking for where to conduct skin research in Chicago?
Don’t look any further: the NU Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-Based Center provides access to all CBC universities’ members.
▸ Read more
Posted: February 13, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: March 16, 2020
UIC Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology (CBQB)
▸ 1st Annual UIC Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Research Day
Posted: February 13, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: March 11, 2020
NU Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP)
▸ CLP Spills the Tea! Navigating your Science Career
Posted: February 12, 2020
Director’s Corner
Chicago’s DPI to “emulate” Kendall Square in Boston
Gov. J.B. Pritzker to release $500 million in state capital funds towards the development of the University of Illinois’ Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), a potential game-changer for Chicago tech.
▸ Read more
February 11, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Migraineurs – hope is on the horizon!
Supported in part through a CBC Director’s Fund Award, Richard Kraig, UChicago, reports in Brain Research his new findings on the development of a promising migraine therapeutic
▸ Read more
Posted: February 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: March 10, 2020
NU Chicago Women in STEM Initiative
▸ Chicago Women in STEM Symposium: 2020
Posted: February 7, 2020
NEWS
Two Information Sessions at UChicago about the CBC Accelerator and Catalyst Award programs — a recap
The first event was held on January 17 in the Knapp Center of Biomedical Discovery (KCBD) and the second on January 24 in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science (GCIS).
▸ Read more
Posted: February 6, 2020
NEWS
CBC Information Session at UIC about the CBC Accelerator and Catalyst Award programs — a recap
The event was held on Tuesday, January 14, in the Molecular Biology Research Building (MBRB) at UIC.
▸ Read more
Posted: February 4, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: May 1, 2020
UChicago Department of Neurology
▸ 2020 Chicago Symposium:
Translational Neuroscience of Autism
Posted: February 4, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 11, 2020
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Biopathways: Building a Successful University Biotech Company: The Long and Winding Road
Featuring Joseph Moskal, Founder & CSO of Naurex, Inc., Director of the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NU
Posted: February 3, 2020
Success stories
Cite us — we’ll “cite” you back!
Thirty-one new publications attributed to fifteen CBC Awards contribute to a total of 2496 publications that are the result of CBC-sponsored research to date
▸ Read more
Posted: January 31, 2020
Opportunities
Cures Within Reach Funding Opportunities
Cures Within Reach has several new funding opportunity Requests for Proposals including those available to faculty members at the CBC universities:
- Up to $100,000 for clinical and up to $50,000 for preclinical repurposing research in Meniere’s disease (proposals due March 20, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in rare blood cancers (proposals due March 6, 2020)
- Up to $50,000 for clinical repurposing research in retinitis pigmentosa (proposals due March 6, 2020)
▸ Flyer
▸ Learn more and apply
Posted: January 31, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 26 & February 27, 2020
UIC Office of Technology Management
▸ How to start your business: Venture Series
Posted: January 31, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 20, 2020
UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science
▸ UICentre Drug Discovery Workshop:
Strategies and Technologies for Early Stage Drug Discovery
Posted: January 31, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 3, 2020
UIC Office of Technology Management and the College of Pharmacy
▸ Setting the Path Early:
Early Drug Development and the Road to Commercialization
Posted: January 30, 2020
Announcement
17th Annual CBC Symposium
▸ Epigenetics and Disease
SAVE THE DATE: October 30, 2020
LOCATION: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
355 East Erie, Chicago, IL 60611
ORGANIZERS: Jim Audia (Chair; Former CBC Executive Director), Lucy Godley (Co-Chair; CBC Scientific Director for UChicago) and Rick Morimoto (Co-Chair; CBC Interim Executive Director & CBC Scientific Director for NU).
SPEAKERS: Shelley Berger (UPenn), Peggy Goodell (Baylor College of Medicine), Chuan He (UChicago), Cigall Kadoch (Harvard/Dana Farber/Broad Institute), Danny Reinberg (NYU) and Ali Shilatifard (NU).
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Posted: January 30, 2020
Announcement
Upcoming CBC Accelerator Network (CBCAN) Meetings
▸ CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part I
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Discovery Partners Institute
200 South Wacker Drive, Fourth Floor, Chicago, IL 60606
▸ CBC Accelerator Award LOI Submitters Presentations, Rd. 4, Part II
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: TBD
More information coming soon!
Posted: January 27, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
CBC Postdoctoral Award Recipient on a Rise
Eun Ji Chung, 2014 CBC Postdoctoral Research Award recipient named an IEEE New Innovator and BMES Rising Star, USC Viterbi School of Engineering News announced
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Posted: January 26, 2020
“IN THE NEWS”
Autism & fragile chromosome X
Northwestern Magazine features Yongchao Ma, NU, who, together with Chuan He, UChicago, are recipients of a CBC Catalyst Award which supported discovery of how the molecular mechanism of behind the fragile X syndrome, a form of autism
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Posted: January 23, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 24, 2020
UChicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MATTER, the Center for Data and Computing & Chicago Biomedical Consortium
▸ Polsky Entrepreneurial Outlook: Medtech 2020
Posted: January 15, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 23, 2020
UIC UICentre & Center for Clinical and Translational Science
▸ The discovery of a selective CDK4/6 inhibitor for the treatment of cancer: the journey from bench to bedside
Featuring Dr. Larry Gelbert, LMG PharmaTech LLC
Posted: January 14, 2020
NEWS
New Accelerator Awards Announced — 3rd (Spring 2019) Application Round
The CBC is pleased to announce that four teams received Accelerator Awards in the 3rd (Spring 2019) application round. Congratulations!
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Posted: January 13, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 4, 2020
NU Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
▸ Biomedical Data Science Day
Posted: January 10, 2020
Director’s Corner
Fulton Labs to strengthen Chicago efforts to become a biotech hub
Great news for the Chicago-area budding entrepreneurs and CBC-universities biotech spinoffs!
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Posted: January 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: November 6, 2020
UIC College of Pharmacy
▸ 11th Annual College of Pharmacy Research Day
Posted: January 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: April 15
UIC Cancer Center
▸ Dr. Gary Kruh Cancer Research Symposium 2020
Posted: January 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: February 13, 2020
UIC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
▸ Chicago NeuroVascular Meeting
Posted: January 10, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: March 13, 2020
UChicago Neuroscience Institute
▸ Breakthroughs in Marine Biology
Posted: January 9, 2020
Opportunities
14th Annual Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration Workshop:
A Course on Translating Research into Novel Drug Targets
Organizer: Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)
Date: April 26-28, 2020
Location: Sonesta Philadelphia Downtown Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
This interactive workshop is designed as an introductory course covering all aspects of drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Degeneration, and Multiple Sclerosis.
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▸ 2020 ADDF Young Investigator Travel Scholarships and Awards
Posted: January 8, 2020
News
Ka Yee Lee named Provost of University of Chicago
Chicago Biomedical Consortium congratulates and welcomes Professor Ka Yee Lee as incoming provost of the University of Chicago
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Posted: October 4, 2019 (Updated: January 7, 2020)
Opportunities
Keystone Symposium — The Brain Therapeutics: Disruptive Technologies and Opportunities
Date: February 16—19, 2020
Location: Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Speakers include Jim Audia, former CBC Executive Director, who will present: “Drug Discovery in the Academic and Not-For-Profit Community”
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Posted: January 7, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 16, 2020
Simpson Querrey Institute (SQI) at Northwestern University
▸ Rising Stars of SQI Lecture
Posted: January 6, 2020
Announcement
RFA: CBC Catalyst Award
▸ CBC invites new applications
Catalysts are one-time incentive awards (up to $250,000), focused on basic biological/ biomedical research with transformative potential, made to collaborative teams with principals and other strong representation from at least two of the CBC institutions.
Please note that the application guidelines (RFA) have been revised effective January 6, 2020: the Catalyst Award program aims to support basic scientific discoveries that are cutting-edge, high-risk / high-reward and address fundamental research questions.
Round 29 (Spring 2020) application submission portal is now open; submission deadline: February 21, 2020.
▸ Catalyst RFA (rev. Jan. 6, 2020)
Posted: January 6, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 7, 2020
Innovation and New Ventures (INVO) at Northwestern University
▸ INVO & Deerfield Management Seminar | Commercial Market Assessment
Posted: January 6, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 8, 2020
Innovation and New Ventures (INVO) at Northwestern University
▸ INVO & Deerfield Management Seminar | Company Formation
Posted: January 6, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Save the date: January 15, 2020
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) at Northwestern University
▸ CLP SPILLS THE TEA!