▸ RFA: Entrepreneurial Fellows Award

Updated: April 9, 2021
The CBC Entrepreneurial Fellows (EF) Award program identifies and supports the professional development of academic researchers who are keen to develop the skills and experiences needed to move translational projects from a university lab toward commercialization and potentially into a Chicago-based biotech start-up. The program exposes Fellows to a breadth of real-world experiences across the CBC institutions in the Chicago biomedical community.

The CBC Entrepreneurial Fellows (EF) Award application submission portal is now OPEN; Applications for the EF program will be accepted on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

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▸ RFA: Catalyst Award

Updated: April 7, 2021
Catalysts are one-time incentive awards (up to $250,000), focused on basic biological/ biomedical research with transformative potential, made to collaborative teams with principals and other strong representation from at least two of the CBC institutions.

Fall 2021 Catalyst Award Application submission deadline is:
August 20, 2021, @5PM.

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▸ RFA: Accelerator Award

Updated: March 18, 2021
Accelerator Award is a milestone-driven award program (up to $250,000) focused on translational research toward therapeutics or associated biomarkers and diagnostics.

Spring 2021 Accelerator Award Letter of Intent (LOI) submission portal is now CLOSED

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▸ CBC COVID-19 Seminar Series

Updated: April 6, 2021
CBC and the CBC COVID-19 Response Award recipients invite you to attend a series of townhall meetings during which our invited speakers will discuss SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 biomedical research.

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 4:00PM – 5:00PM
Location: Virtual via ZOOM
Speaker: Savas Tay, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
The University of Chicago
Talk Title: Drug repurposing for COVID-19 and future pandemics

Join us as we hear Dr. Tay talk about his lab’s drug discovery pipeline, the technological developments in high throughput screening and how these tools could be applied to future pandemics for rapid discovery of repurposed and effective drugs.

Registration is required. A link to the webinar will be provided upon registration.

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UP NEXT IN THE SERIES:

Save the Date!
May 27, 2021
▸ SARS-CoV-2 Viral Genomics And Variation In The Chicago Region
Speaker: Egon Ozer, Assistant Professor of Medicine, NU

June 24, 2021
▸ Autoantibodies Against Angiotensinii Generated by COVID Infection and its Correlation With Disease Severity and Blood Pressure Dysregulation in Hospitalized Patients
Speaker: Melody Swartz, William B. Ogden Professor of Molecular Engineering and Deputy Dean for Faculty Affairs, UChicago

July 22, 2021
▸ Long Haul COVID-19
Speakers from UIC, NU & UChicago