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December 21, 2016
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New Technique Switches Key Biomolecules “on” and “off”
CBC Catalyst Award (2013) to Andrei Karginov (UIC) and Michael Glotzer (UChicago)
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November 8, 2016
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CBC Funded Researchers Discover a Way to Inhibit a Major Cancer Gene
CBC Catalyst Award (2012) to John O’Bryan (UIC) and Shohei Koide (NYU; at UChicago at the time of the award)
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October 31, 2016
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Muscles Have Circadian Clocks that Control Exercise Response
CBC Spark Award (2012) to Nissim Hay (UIC), Joseph Bass (NU), Graeme Bell and Louis Philipson (UChicago)
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September 21, 2016
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Researchers Discover that DNA Naturally Fluoresces
CBC Lever Award (2015) to Vadim Backman (NU), Lucy Godley (UChicago) and Jack Kaplan (UIC)
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September 12, 2016
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Male Chemistry Primes Females for Reproduction — But at a Cost
CBC Catalyst Award (2014) to Erik Andersen (NU) and Ilya Ruvinsky (UChicago)
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July 13, 2016
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New Antidepressant Target Discovered by CBC-Funded Researchers
CBC HTS Award (2013) to Dane Chetkovich and Ye Han (NU)
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July 12, 2016
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With CBC Support, Scientists Identify Neurochemical Signal Likely Missing in Parkinson’s
CBC Junior Recruitment award (2011) to Daniel Dombeck (NU)
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July 7, 2016
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CBC Funding Helps Develop Injectable Biomaterial that could be used to Manipulate Organ Behavior
CBC Postdoctoral Research award (2014) to Yucai Wang, a postdoctoral fellow in Bozhi Tian’s lab (UChicago)
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June 22, 2016
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CBC Funding Helps to Understand Pancreatic Cancer Cells
CBC Catalyst Award (2014) to Hidayatullah Munshi (NU), and Marsha Rosner and Tao Pan (UChicago)
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June 14, 2016
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CBC-Funded Project Plays a Major Role in a Presidential Initiative
CBC Lever Award (2008) to Kevin White (UChicago), Robert Grossman (currently at UChicago but then at UIC), Richard Morimoto (NU) and Luis Amaral (NU)
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March 29, 2016
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Crucial Step in Red Blood Cell Development Discovered
CBC Catalyst Award (2014) to Peng Ji (NU) and Amittha Wickrema (UChicago)
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February 17, 2016
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RNA Modification Discovery Suggests New Code for Control of Gene Expression
CBC Postdoctoral Research Award to Dan Dominissini (UChicago), a postdoctoral fellow in Chuan He’s group
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February 9, 2016
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“Clasping” Collaboration
Three CBC Scientists Join Forces to Develop Exceptional-Quality Antibodies Displaying an Unprecedented Mode of Action
CBC Recruitment Awards to Alex Ruthenburg (UChicago) and Neil Kelleher (NU) and CBC Scientific Director, Shohei Koide (UChicago)
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January 22, 2016
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Researchers Pinpoint Place where Cancer Cells May Begin
Scientists use fruit fly genetics to understand how things could go wrong in cancer
CBC Scholar Award (2011) to Nicolás Peláez (NU)
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