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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." ...
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.”...
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.”...
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. ...
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.”...
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...
‘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. ...
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.”...
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.”...
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.”...
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.”...
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.”...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
KU center wins $11 million grant to continue study of infectious diseases (Opens in new window)
KU center wins $11 million grant to continue study of infectious diseases (Opens in new window)
Hutchison Awarded CBID Research Project for 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. ...
Sathyamoorthi, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted New NIH R35 Award
Shyam Sathyamoorthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $373,437 by National Institutes of Health for his project entitled Tethered aza-Wacker Technology for Complex Antibiotic Assembly. This award is part of the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) initiative, designed to increase the efficiency of NIGMS funding by providing investigators...
Sathyamoorthi, CBID Research Project Awardee, Granted New NIH R35 Award
Coronavirus researcher: FDA approval more reason to get COVID-19 vaccine (Opens in new window)
Coronavirus researcher: FDA approval more reason to get COVID-19 vaccine (Opens in new window)
Dr. Hefty received Phase II CoBRE award
Dr. Scott Hefty, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, has been awarded a Phase II Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) award, "Chemcal Biology of Infectious Disease". This $11,348,826 grant is five years of research funding with the immediate short term goal of the CBID is to provide the necessary...