Registration OPEN for CBC Annual Symposium 2017; Catalyst Award Program Updates; Staying informed
Register NOW for the 15th Annual CBC Symposium: “Small Molecule Discovery”
- DATE: Friday, November 17, 2017
TIME: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: The University of Illinois at Chicago Forum
725 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608Stellar lineup of speakers:
Karin BRINER (Novartis), Ray MOELLERING (UChicago), Vicky RICHON (Ribon Therapeutics), Brian SHOICHET (UCSF), Rick SILVERMAN (NU) and Gregory THATCHER (UIC)All are invited! CBC Executive Director, Jim Audia and the CBC leadership are organizing this all-day event. The meeting will include a poster session and a “Lunch & Learn” session dedicated to the new CBC Accelerator Award program. The event is free of charge but pre-registration is required.
Registration and poster submission are now open. Deadline: Oct. 20, 2017.
For the registration and preliminary program details, go to the symposium webpage.
Catalyst Award Program update:
- Spring 2018 Round Catalyst Award Application key dates announced
Applications to the CBC’s Catalyst Award program are invited twice a year (spring and fall submission rounds). The program offers funding of up to $250,000 for one- or two-year new inter-institutional collaborative research projects. Projects should address important areas of basic biological/biomedical or translational research that are risky, innovative, and potentially transformative.- Online Submission Opens: Feb. 19, 2018
- Proposal Submission Deadline: Feb. 23, 2018 (5 PM)
- Spring 2017 Round Catalyst Awards announced
The CBC is pleased to announce that three teams received Catalyst Awards in the Spring 2017 application round:- PIs: Narayanan Kasthuri (UChicago) and Irina Balyasnikova (NU) for the project:
The Connectome of Newly Born Neurons - PIs: Jaehyuk Choi (NU) and Jun Huang (UChicago) for the project:
Novel Single-Cell Analyses of Tumor-Specific T-cells in Merkel Cell Carcinoma - PIs: Ernesto Bongarzone and Steven Roth (UIC), and Joshua Leonard (NU) for the project:
Targeted Delivery of Biomolecules to the CNS via Extracellular Vesicles
- PIs: Narayanan Kasthuri (UChicago) and Irina Balyasnikova (NU) for the project:
Stay well informed!
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We also love to tweet all of our CBC community successes! If you would like us to share your CBC story contact jolaglotzer@uchicago.edu.For examples of the CBC community recent success stories see:
- Aug 25
Kudos to CBC Catalyst awardee, E Andersen @ResearchNU: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00386-x … The genetic basis of natural variation in a phoretic behavior
https://twitter.com/CBC_ChiBiomed/status/901148546547802112 - Aug 22
Catalyst 2014 to Z. Qian @thisisUIC: β-Catenin Is a Candidate Therapeutic Target for Myeloid Neoplasms with del(5q) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611040
https://twitter.com/CBC_ChiBiomed/status/900022724361433090 - Aug 21
Lever 2008 co-recipient Bob Grossman @UChicagoMed to play a major role in NIH-sponsored Kids First https://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2017/08/15/new-genomic-data-platform-to-focus-on-childrens-health-issues/ … via @ScienceLife
https://twitter.com/CBC_ChiBiomed/status/899719017786736641
- Aug 25
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