Success Stories 2015

Success stories feature research accomplishments attributed to CBC funding.


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2015

November 16, 2015
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Circadian Clock Controls Insulin and Blood Sugar in Pancreas
Map of thousands of genes suggests new therapeutic targets for diabetes
CBC Catalyst Award (2007) to Joseph Bass (NU), Graeme I. Bell (UChicago) and Nissim Hay (UIC)
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October 22, 2015
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CBC Award to Help Find Host-Targeted Therapeutics
CBC Postdoctoral Award (2015) to Daniel Czyż, PhD and Jonathan Willet, PhD (UChicago)
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September 25, 2015
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CBC Awards Help Move Promising Synthetic Antibody Technology into the Commercialization Pipeline
CBC Spark Award (2009) and CBC Lever Award (2012)
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September 24, 2015
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CBC Funding Contributes to Understanding of the Gut Microbiome’s Role in Infants with Allergies to Cow’s Milk
CBC Lever Award to the Chicago Center for Systems Biology (CCSB)
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September 3, 2015
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Postdoctoral Research Award Recipients Publish High-Impact Papers
CBC Postdoctoral Research Awards (2014) to Stefani Spranger and Guanqun Zheng
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August 5, 2015
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Researchers Design First Artificial Ribosome
CBC Senior Investigator Recruitment Award to Neil Kelleher, NU
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May 8, 2015
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Synaptic Membrane Nanodiscs May Help Find Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics
HTS Award to William Klein, NU
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March 6, 2015
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Kind of Like a Hot Dog Bun: Transport molecule forms a protective structure to guide proteins to cell membrane
CBC Lever Award (2012) to Anthony Kossiakoff and Geoffrey Greene (UChicago), Brian Kay (UIC), and Jason Brickner (NU)
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February 25, 2015
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Synthetic Antibodies help Solve Nuclear Pore Complex Structure
CBC Lever Award (2012) to Anthony Kossiakoff and Geoffrey Greene (UChicago), Brian Kay (UIC), and Jason Brickner (NU)
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February 18, 2015
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Modeling a 3D Human Ovarian Cancer in vitro to Screen for Metastasis Inhibitors
CBC HTS Award (2013) to Hilary Kenny and Ernst Lengyel (UChicago)
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February 3, 2015
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Getting Yeast to Pump Up the Protein Production
Researchers have found a way to harvest industrially useful protein from yeast in much greater quantities
CBC Catalyst Award (2011) to Keith Tyo and Konrad Kording (NU), and Douglas Bishop and Lucia Rothman-Denes (UChicago)
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January 14, 2015
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Finding Damaged DNA — Needle in the Haystack
CBC Catalyst Award (2011) to Jung-Hyun Min (UIC) and Chuan He (UChicago)
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