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Winners of the IGB DEI Awards announced
Ananya Sen
For the inaugural DEI Award, two projects have been selected for funding by the Committee on Diversity at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. “Surviving grad…
Hee-Sun Han receives Amy L. Devine Award for commitment to student learning
Tracy Crane
Hee-Sun Han (GNDP/IGOH), a Mark A. Pytosh Scholar and an assistant professor of chemistry, has received the Amy L. Devine Award for her willingness to "go above and beyond" to…
Nicholas Wu named 2022 Searle Scholar
Nicholas Wu (IGOH), an assistant professor of biochemistry, has been selected for the new class of Searle Scholars to pursue ground-breaking research in chemistry and…
CCIL Researchers Receive Grainger College of Engineering Faculty Awards
CCIL
Tandy Warnow (BCXT/IGOH) and Cecilia Leal (M-CELS), who are both scientists at the Cancer Center, have been recognized for their achievements by the Grainger College of…
No photosynthetic improvement in ictB transformants in field-grown model crop
Amanda Nguyen
It is projected that by the year 2050, the global food supply will need to increase by 50-80% to keep up with the growing population. Researchers all over the world have been…
Pedron Haba Named 2022 Minority and Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar
CCIL
Sara Pedron Haba (RBTE), a research assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and a member of the Cancer Center at Illinois, was recently named a 2022…
Douglas Mitchell named John and Margaret Witt Professor of Chemistry
Tracy Crane
Known for ground-breaking research blending chemical and biological approaches to address antibiotic resistance, professor Douglas Mitchell (MMG) was celebrated as the John and…
STEAM TRAIN 2022 adventure completed
Ananya Sen
When one imagines what 6th-8th grade students might be interested in, these projects may not immediately come to mind: studying metabolism in the Minecraft universe,…
NIH BRAIN Initiative supporting development of a probe to monitor brain chemistry
Jenny Applequist
The human brain remains mysterious, and any progress towards solving that mystery may bring enormous benefits. For one thing, millions of people are afflicted with brain…
CABBI Team Develops Automated Platform for Plasmid Production
April Wendling
Plasmids have extensive use in basic and applied biology. These small, circular DNA molecules are used by scientists to introduce new genes into a target organism. Well known…
Carl Gunter invested as the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor
Aaron Seidlitz
One of the highest honors the campus can bestow, named appointments to chairs, professorships, scholars, and fellows acknowledge outstanding faculty research, service, and…
Understanding the genomic modifications in transgenic papaya
Ananya Sen
The transgenic papaya “SunUp” was developed in the 1990s and was widely publicized because of its ability to resist the papaya ringspot virus. Although researchers from the…