Awards

  • The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is one of the most prestigious awards available for student researchers.
    The National Science Foundation recently announced the recipients of their coveted 2014 Graduate Research Fellowship awards. These prestigious awards have been given since 1952 to graduate students who show a demonstrated potential for significant
  • BioFrontiers' Robin Dowell won a Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation.
    Most university faculty divide their time between research activities, teaching and service to their institutions, sometimes putting in hundreds of hours weekly to accomplish the job’s demands. Being able to shine in all of these areas is a rare
  • Seed grant applicants presented posters at the 2013 Butcher Symposium in November.
    Butcher Seed Grant WinnersSeven recipients of the 2014 Butcher Seed Grant Awards were recently notified of their winning proposals in interdisciplinary bioscience. These grants bring critical funding to many of Colorado’s top academic researchers
  • BioFrontiers' Will Old is leading the SPARTA team.
    The University of Colorado was recently awarded a cooperative agreement worth up to $14.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new technological system to rapidly determine how drugs and biological or
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    CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Student Team Wows Judges at Premiere Biology CompetitionWhen this year’s iGEM team at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ began meeting early this year, they wanted to take what they knew about biology, and use it to build something
  • A cardiomyocyte imaged by the BioFrontiers Advanced Imaging Facility.
    BioFrontiers scientist tackles a childhood disease of the heartBioFrontiers Chief Scientific Officer Leslie Leinwand, has been studying the motor protein, myosin, for 25 years. This important protein is responsible for making muscles contract,
  • The JSCBB is home to the BioFrontiers Institute. Image by Devan Gomez
    JSCBB earns LEED platinum rating  The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology building has received a LEED platinum rating -- the highest possible evaluation -- from the United States Green Building Council. The
  • Hubert Yin is one of three BioFrontiers scientists who received state grants to enable commercialization.
    BioFrontiers faculty receive commercialization grants from the State of ColoradoTen CU research projects were recently selected to receive grants through Colorado’s Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program (BDEG-Co). The State of Colorado
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    CU Team Wins Venture Capital CompetitionA student team from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business recently won the 15thInternational Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) at the University of North Carolina, beating teams
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    2012 Butcher Seed Grants AwardedTen recipients of the 2012 Butcher Seed Grant Awards were recently notified of their winning proposals in interdisciplinary bioscience. These grants bring critical funding to many of Colorado’s top academic
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