Awards
Congratulations to Biochemistry Professor Sabrina Spencer, recipient of a 2020 Provost Faculty Achievement Award!From the Provost’s Letter:“In selecting you for this award, the faculty committee pointed to the importance of
Moshe Gordon, a Biochemistry graduate student in Dr. Joseph Falke's lab has been awarded the SRAA Outstanding Poster Award at the 2020 Biophysical Society Annual Conference in San Diego, California. Moshe
Lab Venture Challenge awards $900,000 to promising bioscience, physical science and engineering ventures
NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program to fund Sabrina Spencer’s CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ research that could shed light on cancer treatmentScientists do not fully understand how cells choose between proliferation and quiescence (a state of non-
Pioneering biochemists Natalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." Membership in the prestigious organization is widely considered to be one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017. Distinguished Professor Marvin Caruthers of CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was honored for his pioneering contributions to the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA, making it possible to decode and encode genes and genomes.
Ahn, a professor of distinction in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, was elected president of The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology last year and began her term as president-elect in July.
CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ philosopher Alison Jaggar and biochemist Karolin Luger are among 228 new members of the academy, which includes some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, business people and philanthropic leaders, the academy said in a statement.
ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Distinguished Professor Tom Cech, Colorado’s first Nobel Prize winner, has been named the 2017 Hazel Barnes Prize winner – the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university.