Faculty Highlights
Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame
Dr. Tom Cech Inducted into the 2024 Boulder County Business Hall of Fame Encouraging and Recognizing Business Excellence : The Boulder County Business Hall of Fame is a private, nonprofit 501C3 dedicated to the encouragement of business excellence in Boulder County by recognizing and inducting Boulder County business leaders into...
Undergraduate Student Highlights
Tamanna Talwar wins Map the System competition
CU Boulder biochemistry student Tamanna Talwar explored the barriers to early diagnosis and treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Graduate Student Highlights
CU Boulder PhD student Emily Kibby has won the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
CU Boulder PhD student Emily Kibby has won the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award in recognition of her work researching bacterial immune responses. Her work recently was recognized with the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award , given by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center to honor outstanding achievement...
Postdoc Highlights
How silencing a gene-silencer could lead to new cancer drugs
Deep inside our cells鈥攅ach one complete with an identical set of genes鈥攁 molecular machine known as PRC2 plays a critical role in determining which cells become heart cells, versus brain or muscle or skin cells. When the machine is missing or broken, normal fetal development can鈥檛 occur. If it鈥檚 mutated,...
Alumni Highlights
A Scientific Mind. A Born Leader. : Dr. William S. Marshall
Dr. William S. Marshall, a scienti铿乧 mind proven through his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, quickly scaled the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry corporate ladders holding increasingly advanced positions (see timeline for his complete trajectory). Current...
Department Highlights
Tom Cech: How CU tackled COVID-19 testing
By Tom Cech I鈥檝e been immersed in the new book by Walter Isaacson, modestly titled 鈥淭he Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.鈥� Multiple pages describe Jennifer鈥檚 leadership in launching COVID-19 testing on the Berkeley campus. There鈥檚 no question that Jennifer鈥檚 scientific acumen, compassion,...
