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Tue, 05/30/2023

KU research award recipients working toward new vaccines, better breast cancer response to immunotherapy

LAWRENCE — Two projects — one investigating vaccine efficacy for chlamydia and Lyme disease and the other trying to improve breast cancer response to immunotherapy — were selected to receive the 2023 J.R. and Inez Jay Fund research award. Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biosciences will conduct both projects. ...

Mon, 04/17/2023

Three KU Engineering faculty recognized for early career research achievement

LAWRENCE — Three assistant professors from the University of Kansas School of Engineering have each received prestigious national awards granted to early-career faculty whose research shows promise. ...

Tue, 03/28/2023

Caetano Antunes, CBID Faculty Recruit, Joins Molecular Biosciences Faculty (Opens in new window)

Dr. Caetano Antunes majored in Microbiology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he also obtained his M.Sc. degree, working on quorum sensing in anaerobic bacteria. He pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Iowa, where he investigated mechanisms of quorum sensing control of gene expression...

Sun, 03/05/2023

Do you already have Alzheimer’s? That's what scientists at KU are asking young people (Opens in new window)

“Do you already have Alzheimer’s?” This is the question Brian Ackley, associate professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Kansas, is posing to the KU student body, a collectively young demographic rarely associated with the disease. ...

Mon, 02/27/2023

Slusky featured in KU's "I Am Striving" series (Opens in new window)

Fri, 02/24/2023

Orozco, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted $9,998 (Opens in new window)

Robin Orozco, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded a $9,998 pilot grant by the KU Center for Genomics for her project entitled: “Pro-autoimmune allele of PTPN22 influences immune cell functions during virus infection.”...

Thu, 01/26/2023

Berkland, CBID Pilot Project Awardee, Granted $3,025,839 (Opens in new window)

Cory Berkland, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was awarded $3,025,839 by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust for his project, "Development of SAgA-T1D as Type 1 Diabetes Antigen Specific Immunotherapy." ...

Thu, 01/26/2023

Fehr, CBID Faculty Recruit, granted $424,184 by National Institutes of Health (Opens in new window)

CBID faculty recruit Anthony Fehr, Dept of Molecular Biosciences, has been granted $424,184 by the National Institutes of Health for his project titled "Identifying the targets of virus-induced PARPs during SARS-CoV-2 infection." ...

Wed, 12/07/2022

Hefty, CBID Program Director, Awarded $275,468 (Opens in new window)

Scott Hefty, CBID Program Director and Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $275,468 by the University of Washington for his project entitled: “Functional Genomics for Chlamydia.”...

Wed, 12/07/2022

Hefty, CBID Program Director, Granted New Award (Opens in new window)

Scott Hefty, CBID Program Director and Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $275,468 by the University of Washington for his project entitled: “Functional Genomics for Chlamydia.”...

Thu, 12/01/2022

Fehr invited to serve on Journal of Virology editorial board (Opens in new window)

Anthony Fehr, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences, was invited to serve as an editorial board member for the Journal of Virology. As a CBID faculty recruit and a former research project holder who graduated from CBID, we congratulate him on this opportunity. ...

Mon, 11/21/2022

Biology faculty members honored by Class of 2023 with HOPE Awards for teaching

Fri, 10/28/2022

Sathyamoorthi, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted $66,075 (Opens in new window)

Shyam Sathyamoorthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded a $66,075 supplement by the National Institutes of Health for his project entitled: “Tethered aza-Wacker Technology for Complex Antibiotic Assembly.”...

Mon, 10/24/2022

KU hosts inaugural Chemical Biology Symposium

LAWRENCE — Through the joint effort of the National Institute of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CoBRE CBID), the NIH-sponsored Dynamic Aspects of Chemical Biology Graduate Student Training program (DACB) and the Higuchi Biosciences Center, the University of Kansas presented its inaugural Chemical...

Wed, 10/19/2022

‘Deep fake’ protein designed with artificial intelligence will target water pollutants

LAWRENCE — If you’ve ever used a text-based artificial-intelligence image generator like Craiyon or DALL-E, you know with a few word prompts that the AI tools create images that are both realistic and completely synthesized. ...

Thu, 09/29/2022

Johnson, Director of CBID Computational Chemical Biology Core Facility, Receives New Award from the University of Maryland - Baltimore (Opens in new window)

David Johnson, Director, CBID Computational Chemical Biology Core Facility, was awarded $26,775 by the University of Maryland - Baltimore for his project entitled: “PTPRD Phosphatase Inhibitors for Stimulant Use Disorders.”...

Thu, 09/29/2022

Slusky, CBID Pilot Project Leader, Granted $1,500,000 by the National Science Foundation (Opens in new window)

Joanna Slusky, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $1,500,000 by the National Science Foundation for her project entitled: “MFB: NSF-BSF: Data-Adaptive and Metamorphosis Machine Learning Architectures for Generative Protein Design of Metal Biosensors.”...

Thu, 09/29/2022

Sathyamoorthi, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted $25,000 (Opens in new window)

Shyam Sathyamoorthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $25,000.00 by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute for his project entitled: “Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Underexplored Antibiotics and Analogues.”...

Tue, 08/30/2022

Wang, CBID participant, Awarded $1,200,000 by the W.M. Keck Foundation (Opens in new window)

Jingxin Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $1,200,000 by the W.M. Keck Foundation for his project entitled: “Systematic identification of splicing-modulating regulatory elements.” He was also awarded $1,912,500 by the National Institutes of Health for his project entitled: “Modulating Gene Expression by RNA-targeting Chimeras.”...

Tue, 08/30/2022

Bloom, CBID Research Project Leader, Awarded $1,912,500 by the National Institutes of Health (Opens in new window)

Steven Bloom, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $1,912,500 by the National Institutes of Health for his project entitled: “New Catalytic Strategies to Make Non-proteinogenic Peptides.”...

Fri, 06/03/2022

KU research award recipients working toward deeper understanding of Alzheimer's disease, fighting viral infections

LAWRENCE — Three projects — one investigating synaptic degeneration caused by Alzheimer’s disease and two addressing the prevention and treatment of two viruses — were selected to receive the 2022 J.R. and Inez Jay Fund research award at the University of Kansas. Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biosciences will...

Tue, 03/01/2022

Alexander MacKerell Recognized for His Profound Impact in the Fields of Biomolecular Simulations and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery (Opens in new window)

Dr Alexander MacKerell, IBBR Fellow, Director of the Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and Grollman-Glick Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Maryland, Baltimore, has received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. The award...

Tue, 02/01/2022

KU professor aims to get rid of coronavirus (Opens in new window)

A scientist at the University of Kansas had made advances that could change the future of coronavirus. ...

Thu, 01/27/2022

KU lab leads research on little-studied coronavirus structure, developing antiviral treatment

LAWRENCE — Back in early 2020, University of Kansas virologist Anthony Fehr was part of a relatively small community of researchers in the world studying coronaviruses. Then the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and his niche research area exploded on a global scale. Fehr appeared on television shows and in newspaper articles...

Wed, 12/15/2021

Tilvawala, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted New NIH U01 Award

Dr. Ronak Tilvawala (Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences) received a collaborative NCI U01 $3.8 M grant for the project entitled, "Engineering Native E. coli to Detect Report and Treat Colorectal Cancer " in collaborations with faculty from the University of San Diego, University of Florida, Illinois Institute of Engineering, and the...

Tue, 10/05/2021

With new $11.35M NIH COBRE award, KU center continues fight against infectious diseases

LAWRENCE — The COVID-19 pandemic is an awful reminder of the “perpetual” public health challenge of infectious disease. In addition to emerging contagions, the world also faces a decline in effectiveness of antibiotics for both human and animal health. ...

Tue, 10/05/2021

KU center wins $11 million grant to continue study of infectious diseases (Opens in new window)

Tue, 10/05/2021

KU center wins $11 million grant to continue study of infectious diseases (Opens in new window)

The Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease Center at KU has been awarded an $11.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for phase two of the grant.
Fri, 10/01/2021

Hutchison awarded CBID Research Project for 2021

Justin Hutchison, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas, is the newest recipient of a CBID research project award. Dr. Hutchison's project title is “Screening phage-host receptor interactions using thermal proteome profiling. Additional information about CBID research projects can be found here: https://cbid.cobre.ku.edu/research-projects-0. ...

Fri, 10/01/2021

Hutchison Awarded CBID Research Project for 2021

Justin Hutchison, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas, is the newest recipient of a CBID research project award.

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