Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Using innovative fluorescent sensors and computational modeling, CU Â鶹ӰԺ biochemistry researcher Amy Palmer tracked naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient.
- Maciej Walczak, CU Â鶹ӰԺ associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.
- The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
- Army, non-traditional path at CU Â鶹ӰԺ led Olester Benson to 2018 George Norlin Award.
- At its regular meeting on Thursday at the CU Â鶹ӰԺ campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to approve a new online Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies and two new departments for the Â鶹ӰԺ campus.
- Forty years after researchers first discovered it in fruit flies, a once-obscure cluster of proteins called PRC2 has become a key target for new cancer-fighting drugs, due to its tendency—when mutated—to bind to and silence tumor suppressing genes.
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ professors Natalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
- Two CU Â鶹ӰԺ professors are among the latest group of scientists, politicians, artists and more elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
- The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two CU Â鶹ӰԺ faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017.
- CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers have discovered a potent, drug-like compound that could someday revolutionize treatment of autoimmune diseases by inhibiting a protein instrumental in prompting the body to start attacking its own tissue.