October 30, 2013
CBC Announces 2013 Spring Round Catalyst Awards
The CBC is pleased to announce that six teams received Catalyst Awards in 2013 Spring application round:
- Stephen J. Kron, MD, PhD (UChicago) and Preston T. Snee, PhD (UIC) for project:
Radiation-guided delivery of quantum dot theranostic nanoparticles - Andrei Karginov, PhD (UIC) and Michael Glotzer, PhD (UChicago) for project:
An “And-Gate” for Optogenetic Control of Protein Kinases - Michael Jewett, PhD (NU) and Jared Lewis, PhD (UChicago) for project:
Engineering Prokaryotic Translation for Artificial Metalloenzyme Production - Robert Daum, MD (UChicago) and Michael E. Johnson, PhD (UIC) for project:
A Novel Antimicrobial Strategy Against Methicillin-Resistant S Aureus (MRSA) - Jie Liang, PhD and Amy Kenter, PhD (UIC) and John Marko, PhD (NU) for project:
Characterizing in Vivo Chromatin Folding Landscape of IgH locus on Chromosome 12 - Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD and Haochu Huang, PhD (UChicago) and Xiaozhong Wang, PhD (NU) for project:
Identifying Immune Evasion Mechanisms in Tumors Via a Genome-Wide shRNA Screen