Spotlight
News from the RNA Bioscience Initiative
Former RBI Postdoc, Tassa Saldi, Featured in the June Edition of CU Anschutz Alumni Pulse
June 8, 2021
Find out how Dr. Saldi leveraged her CU Anschutz-RBI training to advance her career. Currently she serves as the laboratory director of the COVID-19 Surveillance Lab at the BioFrontiers Institute and Chief Scientific Officer of TUMI Genomics, a diagnostics company she co-founded in 2020.
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RBI Now Accepting Applications for the RNA Scholars Program
May 28, 2021
The RNA Bioscience Initiative financially supports graduate students as part of its education and training program. Eligible applicants are graduate students whose research focuses primarily on RNA, and who have completed two research years in their thesis lab and passed their comprehensive exam (as of August). The RNA Scholar Awards are for 1 year and are not renewable. RBI RNA Scholars will receive $35,000 (towards their stipend) and an additional $2,000 for educational expenses (such as computer, research-relevant software, or travel to a conference).
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RBI Co-Director Discusses the Future of mRNA Technology on 9News Next with Kyle Clark
June 2, 2021
RBI Co-Director, David Bentley, PhD, was interviewed by 9News reporter Anusha Roy and featured on Next with Kyle Clark. In this piece Dr. Bentley expertly describes the future of mRNA technology and its possible therapeutic uses beyond the COVID
vaccine.
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RBI Announces New Round of Interdisciplinary Pilot Grant Funding- Apply Now!
May 18, 2021
In order to enhance basic science, translational, and clinical studies on the CU Anschutz Campus, the RNA Bioscience Initiative (RBI) supports RNA biology research, particularly RNA-seq and other informatic intensive, cutting-edge technologies via its Pilot Grant Program. Applications are invited for investigator-initiated pilot projects that will generate preliminary data to test the feasibility of novel avenues of research and will support future extramural grant applications.
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Research by RBI Faculty Featured by CU Cancer Center
May 18, 2021
Learn about RBI faculty, Rui Zhao, Neel Mukherjee, and Aaron Johnson, and their collective determination to conquer cancer. Their studies of RNA biology demonstrate the paradoxical role of RNA in cancer, as both driver of disease and potential therapy.
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RBI Postdoctoral Scholar, Steve Bonilla, Awarded Prestigious HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship
February 18, 2021
Steve Bonilla, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kieft Lab, was selected as one of 21 early career researchers recognized by the Howard Hughs Medical Institute (HHMI) as Hanna H. Gray Fellows. Bonilla will receive up to $1.4 million over eight years to expand his ground-breaking work using cryogenic electron microscopy to visualize dynamic RNA structures.
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Former RBI Scholar's Manuscript Featured as Cover Story in Plos Biology
February 8, 2021
Congratulations to former RBI Scholar, Katie Yergert, whose manuscript is featured as the cover piece for the current issue of Plos Biology. Katie was an RBI Scholar for the 2018-2019 year, and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Gary
Bassell's laboratory at Emory University.
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RBI Announces New RNA Scholars
January 1, 2021
Congratulations to Roberto Castro-Gutierrez, Raeann Goering, Divya Kolakada, Nicole Moss, and Matthew Szucs the RBI 2020-2021 RNA Scholars. These five graduate students were selected from a pool of 9 accomplished applicants. Each displays outstanding
promise toward advancing RNA biology.
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Vicens and Kieft Awarded R21 via NIH-NIAID
December 15, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Quentin Vicens and Dr. Jeffrey Kieft who were awarded an R21 through NIAID. They will be studying viral RNAs resistant to exoribonucleases in the alphavirus supergroup.
Cohrs Leverages RBI Expertise to Earn New NIH-R01
November 17, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Randall Cohrs who was awarded an R01 through NIAID. The goal of Dr. Cohr's project is to study transcription of VLT and ORF 63 to provide insight into molecular mechanisms that regulate VZV latency and reactivation, which will allow his lab to develop novel intervention strategies that effectively target latent VZV and consequently the burden of herpes zoster disease.
Hesselberth Awarded NIH Director’s Transformative Research Grant
October 6, 2020
The RBI co-director was one of nine winners selected to pursue a high-risk high-reward project. Dr. Hesselberth will work to develop new approaches to measure biochemical heterogeneity at single-cell resolution.
Jagannathan Wins FSHD Society 2020 Young Investigator Award
August 17, 2020
This RBI faculty member, one of three highly accomplished awardees, was recognized for her groundbreaking work on RNA surveillance and how dysregulation of this process contributes to disease.
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Ramachandran Named 2020 Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research
June 15, 2020
This RBI faculty member, one of five impressive awardees, is tasked with improving methods for early cancer detection using cell-free DNA.
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