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With antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” infecting 2 million people per year, and a dearth of new medications in the pipeline to treat them, CU Boulder researchers are taking a novel approach to addressing the looming public health crisis: They’re developing new drugs to make old drugs work better. “We believe the compounds...

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced today the selection of CU Boulder as one of its 2020 class of Beckman Scholars Program Awardees, U.S. colleges and universities which underscore the Foundation’s mission of supporting basic research in the chemistry and life sciences. The institutions were selected after a rigorous...

Researchers from the laboratory of MCDB Professor Tin Tin Su have shown that SVC112, a compound based on an extract from the firecracker bush, could have potential as a therapy against head and neck cancers. Read More

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The Stem Cell Research and Technology Resource Center is offering a hands-on, week-long human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) culture workshop from Wednesday, Feb. 19 to Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. For details and to register for the workshop, go to http://bit.ly/iPSC-training

MCDB Assistant Professor Nausica Arnoult is one of fifteen early career scientists to receive a 2019 American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Resea r ch Grant s for Junior Faculty. The grant provides early career investigators with up to $100,000 for one to...

Zoe Donaldson received the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting. This award "recognizes early-career professionals who have demonstrated originality and creativity in their research and promotes successful academic transitions prior to tenure." Read More

Congratulations to MCDB's Min Han, whom the University of Colorado Board of Regents has elevated to the rank of University of Colorado Distinguished Professor. Read More

CU's Norm Pace isn't intimidated by the darkness of remote caves, or the vastness of the microbial universe. He's mastered both. The year was 1957. The place, Monroe County, Indiana. The boy, a precocious 14-year-old who had talked his way into the local caving club’s expedition to the newly discovered...

MCDB Associate Professor Jenny Knight is a winner of the 2019 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy Award. The BFA Excellence Awards will be presented at a ceremony on April 2 at the University Memorial Center.