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 | May 2023 Travis Nemkov was highlighted in an article in USA Today! |
 | April 2023 Olivia Rissland received an NIH MIRA renewal and an NIH R21 award! |
 | March 2023 The Johnson Lab has been awarded two new collaborative grants from the National Science Foundation's Dark Dimensions of the RNA Regulome Ideas Lab! |
 | March 2023 Neel Mukherjee and his lab were highlighted in the CU Anschutz Research Annual Report! |
 | March 2023 Matt Taliaferro was highlighted for his article in ‘The Conversation’! |
 | March 2023 Dr. Cooper and her lab were highlighted in the new CUAnschutz “Possibilities Endless” marketing campaign! |
 | February 2023 Hongjin Zheng received an NIH R21 award! |
 | February 2023 Catherine Nicholas, Hesselberth Lab, received the NIH / NIDDK F31 award for "Characterizing molecular phenotypes of pancreatic islet reactive B cells in T1D through single cell sequencing"! |
 | February 2023 Conner Langeberg, Kieft Lab, received the Poster Award at the 2023 Fusion Conference on Nucleic Acids! |
 | February 2023 Ning Zhao received an NIH R00 to study protein co-translational folding in living cells! |
| January 2023 Travis Nemkov, D'Alessandro Lab, received a pilot grant from Golfers Against Cancer to use omics analysis for personalization of exercise prescription in lymphoma survivors! |
 | January 2023 Mohamed Ghoneim, Musselman Lab, received an award from the CLC! |
 | January 2023 Michael Cortazar, Jagannathan Lab, received an award from the AHA! |
 | December 2022 Quentin Vicens received an NIGMS grant award 1 R21GM148902-01, with Dr. Elena Rivas (Harvard University) as co-PI, title:"An all-in-one for RNA structure prediction using evolutionary information"! |
 | December 2022 Vadym Zaberezhnyy, DeGregori Lab, was awarded the 2022 Steven Fadul Award! |
 | November 2022 Rui Zhao and Heide Ford received a 2022 AB Nexus Award with Dr. Wang (CU Boulder)! |
 | November 2022 Jay Hesselberth received a 2022 AB Nexus Award with Dr. Kostov (CU Boulder)! |
  | November 2022 AML research by James DeGregori, Harry Park, and the DeGregori Lab was highlighted in CU Anschutz Today! |
 | September 2022 Rachel Culp-Hill , D’Alessandro Lab, received a 2022 CU Anschutz Research Award for Trainee Research Excellence. Congratulations! |
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 | September 2022 Catherine Musselman and Christian Mosimann were awarded an NSF grant that was highlighted in the SOM Newsroom . Congratulations! |
 | August 2022 Neel Mukherjee has been awarded an NIGMS MIRA award. Congratulations! |
| August 2022 Rishi Nageshan, Rahul Thadani, and Julie Cooper, Cooper Lab, were highlighted in a recent article with the SEA-PHAGES Summer Program . Congratulations! |
| July 2022 Jay Hesselberth and his team were awarded a 2022 ASPIRE Program Team Award for their research on Mechanisms of immune protection and pathology by lymph node stromal cells. Congratulations! |
| June 2022 Morkos Henen, Quentin Vicens, and Beat Vögeli were co-guest editors for a collection of articles aimed to present novel approaches, technologies, targets, and therapeutics in the area of drug discovery. Congratulations! |
| June 2022 Elan Eisenmesser and Beat Vogeli were awarded an R21 "The SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid interactions with RNA and host cell cyclophilin-A". Congratulations! |
 | June 2022 Rui Zhao has been awarded an NIGMS MIRA award! Congratulations! |
 | June 2022 Morkos Henen, Vogeli Lab , was awarded an R21 from NIH to fund research on COVID 19. Congratulations! |
 | June 2022 Elizabeth Spear, Kieft Lab , won a "Best Poster" Award at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Congratulations! |
 | June 2022 Suja Jagannathan was awarded a 2022 Translational Research Scholar Award ! Congratulations! |
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 | May 2022 Mark Johnston, Professor Emeritus, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ! Congratulations! |
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Julie Cooper was awarded a R01 NIGMS grant. Congratulations! |
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 | March 2022 Allison Porman Swain, Johnson Lab, has been awarded the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the NIH/NIDCR for her project “N6-methyladenosine in Candida white-opaque switching and oral infection”. Congratulations! |
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December 2021 Jillian Ramos, Kieft Lab, has been awarded the 2022 RNA Society / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Award for Research Excellence by an Underrepresented Scientist! |
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December 2021 David Costantino, Kieft Lab, was selected as the 2021 Steven Fadul Award winner! |
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November 2021 Jeff Kieft and Steve Bonilla were highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “CU Anschutz Researchers Examine How a Viral RNA Changes Shape to Hijack Host Cells” |
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November 2021 Elan Eisenmesser was awarded an R01 – "The oxidative state of the coenzyme modulates global dynamics and function within an enzyme family |
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August 2021 Casey Greene was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “CU Researcher and Colleagues Offer Standards for Studies Using Machine Learning” |
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July 2021 Matt Taliaferro and Chad Pearson (CDB) were awarded a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation. |
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July 2021 Evan Morrison, Rissland Lab, was awarded the HHMI Gilliam fellowship. |
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July 2021 Suja Jagannathan was awarded a FSHD Society grant. |
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July 2021 Eric Pietras (Division of Hematology) and James DeGregori's publications were highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “Two Studies by CU Cancer Center Researchers Explore Link Between Inflammation and Leukemia” |
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June 2021 Natalie Davidson's, Greene Lab, publication - "Analysis of scientific journalism in Nature reveals gender and regional disparities in coverage" - was highlighted in a Nature editorial. |
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June 2021 Olivia Rissland was awarded the NSF CAREER. |
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June 2021 Jeff Kieft was awarded a CCTSI Pilot grant. |
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June 2021 Srinivas Ramachandran and James DeGregori were awarded a CU Cancer Center grant. |
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June 2021 David Bentley shared his knowledge of mRNA technology in an interview with 9News – “After what scientists learned from COVID vaccines, a look at the future of mRNA technology” |
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May 2021 The Johnson, Mukherjee and Zhao labs were highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Good News for Cancer Care?” |
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May 2021 Zoe O’Donoghue, Kieft Lab, has been selected to be one of the prestigious AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows in DC, starting this fall. Zoe has also been awarded the Graduate School Student Award for Distinguished Service. |
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May 2021 Melissa Haendel and Casey Greene were highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “With a treasure trove of data, CU Anschutz gears up to strike gold” |
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April 2021 Rachel Culp-Hill (D’Alessandro lab) was awarded the STBB Student Award for Research Excellence. |
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April 2021 Srinivas Ramachandran and Satyanarayan Rao’s Molecular Cell publication was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “ How transcription factors work together in cancer formation” |
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April 2021 Multiple BMG CU Cancer Center Member's PNAS publication was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News - " A drug that can stop tumors from growing" |
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April 2021 Jim Sikela was awarded an Autism Speaks grant. |
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March 2021 Welcome to BMG, Melissa Haendel! Dr. Haendel will be the Chief Research Informatics Officer for the Anschutz Medical Campus as well as a Professor in BMG. |
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March 2021 David Pollock contributed scientific expertise to the Washington Post article “An Accelerated cauldron of evolution: Covid-19 patients with cancer, HIV, may play a role in emergence of variant”. |
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March 2021 Monika Dzieciatkowska, Julie Haines, and Angelo D’Alessandro’s research was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus News – “Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again” |
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March 2021 Elan Eisenmesser’s COVID-19 research was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus news – “Researchers Target Nucleocapsid Protein to Combat COVID-19” |
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February 2021 James DeGregori’s research was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus news - “The Impacts of Aging on Cancer” |
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February 2021 David Pollock’s COVID-19 research was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus news - “Coronavirus Mutates Fast; New Strain Can Arise in Single Patient” |
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February 2021 Steve Bonilla (Postdoctoral Scholar, Kieft Lab) was awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Grey Fellowship. |
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January 2021 Elan Eisenmesser’s recent streptococcus pneumoniae publication was highlighted in Nature Communications Focus Structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics. |
| December 2020 Quentin Vicens (Research Asst. Prof.) and Jeff Kieft were awarded an NIH R21 from NIAID to study xrRNAs in the alphavirus supergroup. Congratulations! |
 | November 2020 Angelo D’Alessandro’s COVID-19 red blood cell research was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus news - “Attack on Red Blood Cells a Prime Suspect in COVID’s Debilitating Effects” |
| November 2020 Welcome to BMG, Casey Greene! Dr. Greene will be the Director of the new Center for Health Artificial Intelligence and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, both of which will be forming over the next year. |
 | October 2020 Travis Nemkov’s (postdoc D'Alessandro lab) recent publication was highlighted in the CU Anschutz Medical Campus news - “Metabolomics: The Science Behind a Tour de France Winner”
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| October 2020 Suja Jagannathan was awarded an RNA Society Colorado RNA Club grant. Congratulations!
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| October 2020 Angelo D’Alessandro’s recent publication on the cover of Small was highlighted in Technology Networks - “New Technology Diagnoses Sickle Cell Disease in Record Time” |
 | October 2020 Jay Hesselberth was awarded a R01 NIH Director's Transformative Research grant. Congratulations! |
| September 2020 James DeGregori was awarded a shared R01 NICHD grant with Andrew Thorburn (Dept. of Pharmacology). Congratulations! |
 | September 2020 Francisco Asturias was awarded a shared R01 NIAID grant with Mamuka Kvaratskhelia (Division of Infectious Diseases). Congratulations! |
| September 2020 Angelo D’Alessandro won the 2020 Innovation Award from the National Blood Foundation. Congratulations! |
 | September 2020 Dick Davis lab’s recent publication was highlighted in the Sept. 2020 issue of Cell Current Biology - "Genomes: Programmed DNA Elimination in a Parasitic Nematode" |
 | August 2020 Congrats to Lena Steckelberg from the Kieft lab on joining the faculty of Columbia University Med Center Biochemistry and Mol. Biophysics Dept.! |
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 | April 2020 Hongjin Zheng was awarded a R21 NIA grant. |
| April 2020 Giovana Maria Breda Veronezi (Davis Lab) interviewed Allison Porman Swain (Johnson Lab) for the blog "Ciência pelos olhos delas" (“Science through her eyes”), linked to the University of Campinas, in Brazil. |
 | March 2020 Olivia Rissland was awarded a R21 NIAID grant. |
 | March 2020 Angelo D'Alessandro was awarded a R01 NHLBI grant and R21 NHLBI grant. |
 | March 2020 Aaron Johnson was awarded a NSF grant. |
| February 2020 Angelo D’Alessandro won the Jean Julliard Award for Transfusion Medicine from the International Society for Blood Transfusion. |
| January 2020 James Sikela's recent Human Genetics publication was named one of the 10 most downloaded articles of 2019 for that journal. |
| January 2020 Suja Jagannathan was awarded a grant from Friends of FSH Research and The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD to study the role of aberrant protein synthesis in FSHD. |
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Julie Cooper has been named Chair of BMG. |
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David Bentley was awarded a NIH R01 Transformative Research Award for the INCLUDE (Investigation of Co-occurring Conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndrome) Project. |
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Allison Porman, Postdoctoral fellow, Johnson lab, received the Postdoctoral Research Day Travel Award and 1st Place Poster Award |
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Neel Mukherjee was awarded with the Outstanding Ally Award from the 2019 WiSTEM Symposium. |
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Rui Zhao was awarded an NIH R01 award. |
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Angelo D’Alessandro was awarded an NIH R01 award. |
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Beat Vogeli was awarded an NIH R01 award and an NSF award. |
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Matt Taliaferro was awarded an NIH Mira award. |
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Suja Jagannathan was awarded an NIH Mira award. |
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Srinivas Ramachandran was awarded an NIH Mira award. |
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Elan Eisenmesser was awarded an NIH R56 and a Golfers Against Cancer award. |
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Jeffrey Kieft has been awarded an R01 from the NIH Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
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Rui Zhao was awarded an R01 grant with Heide Ford from the National Cancer Institute, and a CCTRA grant from Cancer Center |
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Angelo D’Alessandro has been awarded a Challenge Grant from the Crnic Foundation |
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Sclafani and Jay Hesselberth published a paper this month with co-first authors Molecular Biology students, Dan Rossbach and Suzie Bryan, “Localization of Cdc7 Protein Kinase During DNA Replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
in G3:Genes, Genomes and Genetics. One of the figures was also highlighted on the Journal’s home page.
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James Sikela's song “I Love DNA” was featured in the ASHG Blog. |
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Angelo D'Alessandro's altitude research is in the news. Read Red blood cell storage and clinical outcomes (PDF) |
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Jeffrey Kieft's research is in the news. Read the Learning from the best article on Research Features |
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Robert Hodges has been awarded the Merrifield Award. |
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Jeffrey Kieft has been awarded an NIH R21 grant to research the ZIKA virus. |
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James DeGregori has been awarded a V Foundation Translational Research Grant. |
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Rui Zhao has been awarded a CCTSI Pilot Grant and a UCCC MO Translational Award. |
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Jay Hesselberth has been awarded an NIGMS R35 MIRA Award. |
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James DeGregori receives endowed chair in lung cancer research. |
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Kirk Hansen recently received the 2016 LCI Challenge Award. |
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Changwei Liu recently received the 2016 LCI Challenge Award. |
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David Pollock has been awarded an R01. "Modeling Evolution of Functional Context in Proteins" David Bentley has been a |
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David Bentley has been awarded an NIGMS R35 MIRA award. |
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Aaron Johnson has been awarded an NIGMS R35 MIRA Award |
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Jeffrey Kieft has been awarded an NIGMS R35 MIRA Award |
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James Sikela has been awarded an NIH R01 “Investigation of DUF1220 domains in human brain function and disease” |
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Hongjin Zheng has been awarded a Boettcher Foundation Grant |
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Changwei Liu was recently awarded a CCTSI Colorado Pilot Program Grant |
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James Sikela published a paper linking DUF1220 copy number with schizophrenia risk and severity |
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Robert Hodges (cycling), and his sister Barbara Hodges (swimming) and his sister's husband, Ron VanMeenan (running) won the Gold in the mixed team triathlon at the Huntsman World Senior Games (10,448 competitors) in St. George, Utah. |
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Congratulations to Aga Kendrick, PhD 2016! |
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Congratulations to Michael Holliday, PhD 2016! |
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Congratulations to Becky Fusby, PhD 2016! |
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Bob Sclafani was interviewed in CytoSource section of the journal “Cancer Cytopathology” issue of Sept 16, 2015, the official journal of the American Cancer Society: "Assessing the aftermath of an alcohol-fueled weekend: Alcohol-induced DNA damage and faulty repairs may raise the risk of certain cancers, but resveratrol could provide some relief" |
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David Bentley has a recently accepted manuscript in Molecular Cell "Effects of transcription elongation rate and Xrn2 exonuclease activity on RNA polymerase II termination suggest widespread kinetic competition" |
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Elan Eisenmesser Jeffrey Kieft, Mark Gregory have all been awarded a Cancer League of Colorado Grant. |
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Congratulations to Veronica Searles, PhD 2015! |
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Congratulations to Suzi Bryan, PhD 2015! |
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Congratulations to Melanie Blevins, PhD 2015! |
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Congratulations to Yumeng Hao, PhD 2015! |
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Congratulations to Julie Woodman, PhD 2015! |
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Rui Zhao has recently been awarded an NIH R01 Grant “Structure and function of U5 snRNP” and an NIH R21 Grant "Developing cancer therapies through targeting the SIX1/Eya transcriptional complex." |
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Changwei Liu has recently been awarded a Linda Crnic Institute Grant. |
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James DeGregori has recently been awarded an NIH R21 Grant "Nrf2-mediated impaired hematopoietic stem cell fitness following irradiation." |
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Bob Sclafani was quoted in the Chemical and Engineering News about his talk on yeast molecular genetics and craft beer brewing in Colorado at the American Chemical Society Meeting last month. Read the full article here. |
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Jeffrey Kieft was recently mentioned in articles by The Guardian and also Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. |
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Jeffrey Kieft's Laboratory recently published this research in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7541/full/nature14219.html |
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James DeGregori received CO-Pilot Independent Faculty Awards from the CCTSI. "Analyzing changes in human hematopoietic mutational landscapes with age." |
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Recent publication accepted in Nature by Jeffrey Kieft and lab. Read the paper here. |
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Robert Sclafani was recently named scientist of the week by Laboratory Equipment. |
| James Sikela's research was recently featured in this press release from Nature, "Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes." |
| Jeffrey Kieft's research was recently highlighted in the HHMI bulletin. See more here. |
| James Sikela's research was recently highlighted in the new issue of Genetics. |
| Elan Eisenmesser was recently awarded a new R01 "Combining chemical shift-based and experimental approaches to study enzyme dynamics." |
| Rui Zhao was recently awarded two new grants: a R21 and Alex's Lemonade Stand. |
| James Sikela was recently awarded a new grant from the Simons Foundation "DUF1220 CON1 dosage effects in Autism Spectrum Disorder." |
| Elan Eisenmesser was recently selected as one of this year's Graduate School Dean's Mentoring Award recipients. This award was created by the Graduate School to recognize and honor excellence in mentoring by the graduate faculty. |
| Jeffrey Kieft and lab published two recent papers that may help scientists develop treatment or vaccines for Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and other disease-causing flaviviruses. See these papers on these enclosed links in addition to the recent UCD press release. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 |
 | Mark Johnston was recently featured in the GSA Reporter "Conversations with the Editors of GSA Journals" More |
| James DeGregori was recently awarded a grant from the Linda Crnic Institute "Study increase in leukemia incidence and other problems with blood cell production, including reduced immunity." More |
| Aaron Johnson was recently awarded a grant from the Linda Crnic Institute "Reconstitute chromosome 21 in the test tube to understand how it can be turned off by an RNA molecule." |
| James Sikela's autism research was featured on Fox 31 news as well as the CU Newsroom and News-Medical.net Link 1 Link 2 |
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Scientists from the University of Colorado School of Medicine who sequenced the genome of the Burmese python have discovered large numbers of rapidly evolved genes in snakes. The Burmese python genome reveals the molecular basis for extreme adaptation in snakes. PNAS 1314475110 The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system. PNAS 1314702110 Related write-ups:
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Kirk Hansen was recently awarded a DOD Idea Award "Define Tumor-Suppressive Signatures and How They Change upon Loss of Tumor Dormancy." |
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Rui Zhao was recently awarded a STTR and BDEG grant along with Heide Ford in Pharmacology. |
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The American Peptide Society has awarded Robert S. Hodges (University of Colorado - Denver) the Murray Goodman Scientific Excellence & Mentorship Award endowed by Zelda Goodman. The Goodman Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated career-long research excellence in the field of peptide science. In addition, the selected individual should have been responsible for significant mentorship and training of students, post-doctoral fellows, and/or other co-workers. |
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James DeGregori, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, will use mouse models to ask whether the increase in leukemias associated with Down syndrome is actually caused by stem cell defects. The study could indicate ways to improve blood cell function and prevent leukemias in people with Down syndrome. More |
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David Bentley was recently awarded an NIH grant "Mis-regulation of mRNA poly (A) site selection in cancer cells (PQ11)." |
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Aaron Johnson was featured in the 5.1.13 newsletter from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Dr. Aaron Johnson received his PhD from Rockefeller University and is presently Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. His work focuses on the formation and regulation of chromatin domains and their ultimate roles in the nucleus. More |
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Jay Hesselberth was recently awarded a four-year grant from the American Cancer Society, “Mechanisms governing deoxyuridine content in DNA.” |
| Research led by Jeffrey Kieft reveals new hepatitis C secrets that could lead to treatment. |
| The Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) recently awarded Rui Zhao the Team Science Award. |
| James Sikela was recently awarded a 2012 Butcher Seed Grant. More |
 | Mark Johnston has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More |
| With the help of three new grants, James DeGregori hopes to add ammunition to the fight against cancer. |
| Jay R. Hesselberth is one of five scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer who are 2012 recipients of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award. |
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