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Postdoctoral fellow Uday Tak awarded 2021 CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship

Oct. 28, 2021

Dr. Uday Tak, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Aaron Whiteley’s lab in the Biochemistry Department, is the newest recipient of the 2021 Cancer Research Institute: Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship. This award was established to provide support and training for young scientists performing cutting-edge research with applications in cancer immunotherapy and tumor...

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Roy Parker honored with Distinguished Research Lectureship

Sept. 6, 2021

Roy Parker of Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute, alongside Rebecca Maloy of the College of Music, have been selected to receive 2021-2022 Distinguished Research Lectureships.

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Tamanna Talwar wins Map the System competition

Aug. 21, 2021

CU Boulder biochemistry student Tamanna Talwar explored the barriers to early diagnosis and treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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PhD student, professor win major inclusivity fellowship

Aug. 2, 2021

Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger win Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment

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Postdoctoral fellow Hannah Ledvina recipient of 2021 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 4, 2021

Dr. Hannah E. Ledvina, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Aaron Whiteley’s lab in the Biochemistry Department, is a recipient of the 2021 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. This prestigious award was first established in 1937 and aims to support cutting edge medical research at the early career level. Each...

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CU Boulder scientists win $1.2M for cutting-edge microscopy center

March 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have won a $1.2 million award to establish a Center for Light Sheet Microscopy and Data Science, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced.

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Biochemist wins $750k for novel cancer research

Feb. 3, 2021

Sabrina L. Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced recently . She is also one of seven new winners of...

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Former CU Boulder postdoc Jennifer Doudna smashes glass ceiling with historic Nobel win

Oct. 7, 2020

Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the CU Boulder lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna on Wednesday won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.

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With NIH grant, CU Boulder to become national center of cryoelectron tomography

Sept. 21, 2020

The University of Colorado Boulder will be one of four national centers designed to advance the application of cryoelectron tomography (cryoET), which helps visualize in 3-D the fine-structure of intact cells and tissues, the National Institutes of Health announced (NIH) today.

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Creating life’s building blocks

Sept. 3, 2020

CU Boulder Alum is named one of MIT’s Innovators Under 35 for her work with amino acids

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