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Vol. 28, Fall 2019 Welcome to the CBCeNEWS, the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) newsletter. We invite you to read our news and sample what we have to offer in 2020. Scroll down or jump to: |
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RFA: Catalyst Award 
The CBC Catalyst Award program supports new collaborations focused on basic biological / biomedical research that is high-risk / high-reward, innovative and transformative. Catalyst teams must include principals from at least two of the CBC institutions. Catalysts are one-time incentive awards (up to $250,000) and not intended to support incremental progress, obvious next steps, or NIH-ready projects.
RFA: Accelerator Award 
CBC Accelerator Award is a milestone-driven award program (up to $250,000) focused on translational research toward therapeutics or associated biomarkers and diagnostics.
RFA: Entrepreneurial Fellows 
The CBC Entrepreneurial Fellows (EF) Award program identifies and supports the professional development of academic researchers who are keen to develop the skills needed to move translational projects from a university lab toward commercialization and potentially into a Chicago-based biotech start-up. |
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17th Annual CBC Symposium: “Epigenetics and Disease” 
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CBC Executive Director Jim Audia stepping down 
The CBC universities’ Provosts, Daniel Diermeier, UChicago, Jonathan Holloway, Northwestern, and Susan Poser, UIC, announced in a letter to the members of the CBC community that: “After two successful years of leadership, renowned researcher James E. Audia will step down as executive director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) to return to work in the private sector, effective Oct. 31, 2019. (...) The CBC has named its Northwestern University Scientific Director, Richard Morimoto, as interim executive director, effective Nov. 1.”
Chicagoland moves up to #9 in 2019 GEN’s “Top 10 U.S. Biopharma Clusters” report 
Congratulations to NU for being singled out as one of the main contributors to the Chicagoland climbing this year 1 level up among the “Top 10 U.S. Biopharma Clusters,” as reported September 23rd by GEN. Holding a position number 10 for the last several years, Chicagoland placed #9 in 2019, while Seattle dropped to #10 from #9 it held in 2018.
Illinois Researchers to Know 2019 
Three CBC awardees among twenty-one distinguished scientists named “Researchers to Know 2019” at Illinois’ universities: Chuan He, UChicago, and Michael Jewett and Joshua Leonard, NU. Congratulations! |
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Congratulations to all CBC awardees who have recently (Sept.—Oct.) published the results of their CBC-sponsored research. The researchers and their publications are now featured on the CBC website as “CBC Success Stories”:
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