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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. ...

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, 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.”...

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.”...

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

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.”...

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.”...

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