Awards
CU «Ƶ Professor Kristi Anseth has received one of the most prestigious recognitions in the life sciences: a L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science award. Anseth, adistinguished professor and Tisone professorin the Department of
Nearly all species’ genomes are littered with millions of genetic sequences called transposons, which are virus-like parasitic elements that can replicate and spread within host genomes. Collectively, transposon-derived sequences constitute about 50
The ALSAM Foundation, a generous long-time donor to the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS), hasprovided $2M of funding for collaborative grants between the SSPPS and the BioFrontiers Institute. This donation
Sabrina Spencer, CU «Ƶ assistant professor of biochemistry, is one of 58 scientists nationwide to have won an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Those awards, announced today, are part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports “extraordinarily creative scientists proposing highly innovative research to address major challenges in biomedical research.”
Six University of Colorado researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU «Ƶ have been named Boettcher Investigators in theBoettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Programfor 2018.The awards support promising, early
Down Syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder, with 1 in every ~700 newborns in the U.S. affected. Down Syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. This additional chromosome can affect development and disease
Pioneering biochemistsNatalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into theNational Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes"distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." Membership in the prestigious
For billions of years, the battle between cells and viruses has been a primary driver of evolution. «Ƶ researcher Dr. Sara Sawyer has dedicated her career to this relationship, combining methods from virology and
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two CU «Ƶ faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017.Distinguished Professor Marvin Caruthers of CU «Ƶ’sDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistrywas honored for his pioneering
