Higuchi Biosciences Center

HBC February 2016 News Bulletin

Wednesday, February 24, 2016


HBC Science Talks 2016 – Great Success

This year’s HBC Science Talks meeting held on February 19, 2016 was a great success and was attended by over seventy people.  The four guest speakers, Josie Chandler, Mario Rivera, Joanna Slusky, and Jeff Staudinger, all gave very informative and interesting lectures.  We thank them for sharing their time and expertise with their remarkable presentations.  

Thirty four posters covering six thematic research areas as well as the “enabling technologies” area were presented during the poster session immediately following the speakers session.  We are grateful to all who participated in sharing their research.  All speakers’ and posters’ abstracts, as well as some pictures of the event can be found on the HBC website at http://hbc.ku.edu/science-talks.

  

 

Understanding your NIH grant number

While attending the 2015 NIH Regional Seminar held in San Diego last October, participants received informational material.  One such informational flyer provided a short and effective description of the meaning behind NIH grant numbering.  That information is provided below as a handy informational tidbit:


Grant Number:


 



Grant Submission Deadlines

November 5, 2018
NIH standard deadline for Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements (R01 and U01) – renewal, resubmission, revision.

November 12, 2018
NIH standard deadline for Research Career Development (K series) – renewal, resubmission, revision.

November 16, 2018
NIH standard deadline for Other Research Grants and Cooperative Agreements (R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36, UH2, UH3, UH2/UH3) – renewal, resubmission, revision.

 

Recent Awards

Yoshiaki Azuma, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $35,000 by the KU Medical Center for his project entitled: “Impact of SUMOylation on cancer cell's chromatin structure and fitness.”

Brandon DeKosky, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, was awarded $15,150 by the University of Colorado at Denver for his project entitled: “T cell responses shared among triple negative breast cancer patients”.

Susan Lunte, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Departments, was awarded $11,420 by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening as a mentor for Kelci Schilly for the  project entitled: “Exploration of paper-based microfluidics for peptide labeling and mass spectrometric detection.”

Wendy Picking, Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, was awarded $50,000 by Hafion LLC for her project entitled: “Determination of protective efficacy of multimeric Shigella vaccine as the next step toward human trials.”

Thomas Prisinzano, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $30,000 by the American Chemical Society as mentor for Sam Williamson for the project entitled: “Development of a broadly protective subunit vaccine against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”

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