CBC Newsletter, Vol. 13

June 5, 2015

Summer/Fall 2015 Funding Opportunities, Upcoming Events and News


Summer / Fall 2015 Application Deadlines
  • Postdoctoral Research Grant Program: $15,000
    Deadlines: LOI (required): July 1, 2015; Proposals: July 22, 2015
    Eligibility: postdoctoral fellows at NU, UIC and UChicago
    ▸ RFA

  • Exploratory Workshops: $2,000
    Deadlines: July 10 (extended) and September 7
    Eligibility: faculty at NU, UIC and UChicago; requires collaboration between at least two CBC universities
    ▸ RFA

  • Catalyst Award Program: $200,000
    Deadline: August 26, 2015
    Eligibility: faculty at NU, UIC and UChicago; requires collaboration between at least two CBC universities
    ▸ RFA


Save the Date
  • CIMposium on Regulatory Development at MATTER
    June 24, 2015
    Connect with life sciences entrepreneurs, mentors and regulatory development experts at the regulatory development-focused Chicago Innovation Mentors CIMposium!
    ▸ CIMposium Registration

  • Summer 2015 CBC Workshop in Proteomics and Informatics
    August 3 – 6, 2015
    This intensive workshop will offer a theoretical and practical introduction to tandem mass spectrometry proteomics, including the key experimental methods and computational tools needed to pursue analysis of complex proteomic samples.
    ▸ Summer 2015 CBC Workshop in Proteomics and Informatics webpage

  • 13th Annual CBC Symposium at Northwestern
    “The Unseen Majority: Microbes in Health and Disease”

    October 23, 2015

    Stellar lineup: Michael FEDERLE (UIC), Tatyana GOLOVKINA (UChicago), Robert LAMB (NU), Ruth LEY (Cornell), Sarkis MAZMANIAN (CalTech), Charles RICE (Rockefeller), Julie SEGRE (NIH)
    ▸ 13th Annual CBC Symposium webpage


News
  • CBC Announces Sixth Lever Award
    A $1.5M Lever Award was made to Vadim Backman (NU), Lucy Godley (UChicago) and Jack Kaplan (UIC) for the project: “Chicago Center for Physical Science-Oncology Innovation and Translation.”
    ▸ Read more

  • Fall 2014 Awards Announced
    In the Fall 2014 cycle, the CBC made one HTS Award, six Catalyst Awards and sixteen Postdoctoral Research Awards.

  • CBC Junior Investigator Daniel Dombeck Granted McKnight Scholar Award
    ▸ Read more

  • CBC “In the News”
    The March 2015 issue of the Northwestern University Research Newsletter featured an article titled "CBC Stimulates Fresh Research Collaborations," which discusses CBC accomplishments, both at Northwestern and city-wide.
    ▸ Read more

  • CBC Hosts “On the Table” Event
    “On the Table” celebrated the outstanding philanthropic support provided by the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
    ▸ Read more


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