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Mon, 09/30/2024

Kim, CBID research project leader, awarded $25,000

Hyunjoon Kim, CBID research project leader and Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was awarded $25,000 by University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute to study "Novel TLR7/8 agonists for bladder cancer immunotherapy".
Mon, 09/30/2024

Sathyamoorthi, CBID research graduate, granted $76,500

Shyam Sathyamoorthi, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and CBID research project leader graduate, won a new award from Kansas State University. This award will provide $76,500 to study "Illuminating Dark Antibiotics: A Novel Synthesis of Streptothricin F and First Total Synthesis of BD-12 and Albothricin".
Mon, 09/16/2024

Zückert awarded Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship

Former CBID pilot project leader Wolfram Zückert awarded Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship at The University of Kansas Medical Center.
Mon, 09/09/2024

CBID pilot leader Baral's discovery could help treat fatal, drug-resistant pneumonia and sepsis

Pankaj Baral, assistant professor of biology, and Prabhu Raj Joshi, doctoral student in microbiology, are studying how nervous and immune system crosstalk, or bilateral signaling, impacts the body's ability to fight pneumonia caused by the Gram-negative bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, or CRKP.
Thu, 08/29/2024

Farrell awarded patent for kifunensine analogs

Kifunensine analogs are inhibitors of mannosidase enzymes.
Wed, 07/31/2024

Former CBID pilot project leader Ackley receives new award

Former CBID pilot project leader Brian Ackley, Professor of Molecular Biosciences, receives new award from University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute.
Mon, 07/08/2024

Baral Granted $1.87 Million by NIH to explore cell interactions that fight inflammatory disease (Opens in new window)

Pankaj Baral, Kansas State University assistant professor and CBID Pilot Project leader, has been awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, or MIRA, by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. This early stage investigator grant will fund his study of how immune cells and sensory neurons affect tissue inflammation...

Wed, 06/05/2024

5 CBID participants earn promotion and tenure

Congratulations to five CBID faculty who have earned promotion and tenure this spring. ...

Thu, 05/09/2024

KU announces 2024 Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards

The Center for Undergraduate Research has announced the winners of two annual awards recognizing undergraduate research mentors who make a difference in the lives of their students at KU. Cindy Berrie, professor in chemistry, and Laura Kirk, associate teaching professor in theatre and film, are the 2024 honorees.
Fri, 05/03/2024

Ferreira Awarded New Faculty Research Development Award

Rosana Ferreira, CBID Research Project leader, has been awarded a New Faculty Research Development Award for her project titled "Bacterial Interactions and Their Role in the Skin Microbiome Composition." This one year award provides $20,000 to support research development of her project. ...

Fri, 04/26/2024

Teruna Siahaan Awarded An NIH R01

Thu, 04/25/2024

Study reports new compound halting replication of COVID by targeting ‘Mac-1’ protein in cell models

Research from the University of Kansas shows for the first time SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can be inhibited from replicating in living cell cultures using a compound that targets “Mac-1,” a protein key to defending SARS-CoV-2 against the human immune response.
Thu, 03/21/2024

Orozco, CBID Research Project Leader, Finds Gene that Enhances Anti-Viral Immunity (Opens in new window)

Robin Orozco, an assistant professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas, has unveiled new research that explores how a common mutation in the human population changes immune response during a virus infection. Dr. Orozco recently published these findings in PLoS Pathogens and provided foundational building blocks for researchers...

Thu, 02/29/2024

Siahaan and Fehr recognized as 2023 KU innovators (Opens in new window)

KU and its medical center are filled with great innovators striving to find creative solutions for the problems facing our world. Today, the KU Center for Technology Commercialization wants to thank all members of KU's research community for their creativity and ingenuity. We also wish to show specific appreciation to...

Mon, 02/26/2024

Hefty elected to NAIPI National Committee (Opens in new window)

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Hefty, CBID Program Director, for being elected to the National Committee of the National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI). The mission of NAIPI is to provide leadership and communication for the development, promotion and improvement of biomedical research through the INBRE, COBRE, and CTR IDeA...

Mon, 02/26/2024

Hefty elected to NAIPI National Committee

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Hefty, CBID Program Director, for being elected to the National Committee of the National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI). NAIPI aims to protect and promote the IDeA programs. It fosters interactions, promotes resource sharing, enhances the national visibility of the INBREs, CoBREs, and CTRs, develops...

Wed, 11/29/2023

Lynn Hancock Awarded Newest CBID Pilot Project

Lynn Hancock, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, is the new recipient of a CBID pilot project award. Dr. Hancock's project title is “Glycobiology at the interface of the host-microbe interaction." ...

Wed, 09/06/2023

Davido Granted $289,300 by NIH

David Davido, Professor of Molecular Biosciences, has been awarded an NIH supplement grant. This one year award totals $289,300 for Identifying Novel Inhibitors of HSV-2 ICP0. ...

Fri, 09/01/2023

New core lab enhances infectious disease research at KU

Mon, 08/28/2023

New grasp of key COVID-19 protein may lead to a live-attenuated vaccine effective against more variants for longer

LAWRENCE — Research from the University of Kansas just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could hasten development of a new class of vaccines aimed at SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. ...

Mon, 08/28/2023

Grant Will Fund Research Into Antibiotic Resistance (Opens in new window)

Joanna Slusky, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas, received a four-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences with a total cost of $1,244,968. The NIH funded study, entitled “Plugging & Pulling-in: tuning peptides for ToIC to overcome antibiotic resistance” will...

Tue, 08/22/2023

KU chancellor announces promotion and tenure for 163 faculty and researchers

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 64 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 99 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses. ...

Tue, 08/22/2023

Fehr, CBID Faculty Recruit, Published New PNAS Article

Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Fehr, Molecular Biosciences, for his most recent publication. ...

Mon, 08/21/2023

Dataset revolutionizes understanding of beta barrels, promising targets for vaccine development

LAWRENCE — Examples of infections tied to gram-negative bacteria include pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound-site infections and meningitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...

Wed, 07/26/2023

Slusky, CBID Pilot Project Awardee, Granted $311,242 by NIH

Dr. Joanna Slusky, CBID Pilot Project Awardee, has been granted an R01 award by the National Institutes of Health. This three year award totals $311,242 and is titled "Plugging & Pulling-in: tuning peptides for ToIC to overcome antibiotic resistance". ...

Tue, 07/11/2023

Slusky, CBID Pilot Project Leader, has article accepted by PNAS

Dr. Joanna Slusky, Molecular Biosciences, had an article published in PNAS today. ...

Sat, 07/01/2023

Farrell, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted $1,912,500 by NIH (Opens in new window)

Dr. Mark Farrell, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, was granted a National Institutes of Health award for $1,912,500. Titled "Glycoscience Tools and Therapeutics, this five year award is part of the R35 program known as the Outstanding Investigator Award. ...

Sat, 07/01/2023

Fehr, CBID Graduate, Granted New Award (Opens in new window)

Dr. Anthony Fehr, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $50,000 by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute for his project "Investigating Approved Therapeutics For Their Ability To Inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase: 2022-2023." ...

Fri, 06/16/2023

Antunes, Kim, Awarded CBID Research Projects for 2023

Caetano Antunes, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, is one of two new recipients of a CBID research project award. Dr. Antunes's project title is “Microbiome-derived Small Molecules and Host Resistance Against Vibrio Cholerae." ...

Mon, 06/05/2023

Rosana Ferreira joins Molecular Biosciences Faculty (Opens in new window)

The Department of Molecular Biology at The University of Kansas is pleased to announce Rosana Ferreira has joined their faculty and will begin teaching courses in Spring 2023. ...

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