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

August 12, 2020
NIH Standard deadline for R13, U13 – new, renewal, resubmission, revision.

September 8, 2020
DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2   and Era of Hope Scholar Award – Pre-Application deadline (Full Application deadline: September 22)..

Recent Awards

Brandon DeKosky, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, was awarded $107,724 by Columbia University in the City of NY for the project entitled: “Columbia University’s Proposed Response to the New Coronavirus Outbreak.”  He was also awarded $75,000 by the Mercatus Center for the project entitled: “COVID-19 Fast Grants.”

Paulyn Cartwright, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, was awarded $1,573,996 by the National Institutes of Health for her project entitled “MARC for The University of Kansas.”

David Davido, Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $405,301 by the National Institutes of Health for his project entitled: “Identifying functional targets of HSV-1 ICP0-directed degradation.”

Michael Hageman, Distinguished Professor, Department of pharmaceutical chemistry, was awarded $20,000 by the J.R. & Inez Jay Funds for his project entitled: “Translation of Injectable-to-Oral Peptide Pharmacotherapy: Application of E-Cadherin Binding Peptides as Oral Membrane Permeation Enhancers.”

Jennifer Robinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, was awarded $78,210 by the KU Medical Center Research Institute for her project entitled “Behavior of adipose stem cells in 2D and 3D in a wound healing context.”

Frank Schoenen, Associate Research Professor, Higuchi Biosciences Center, was awarded $20,000 by the J.R. & Inez Jay Funds for his project entitled: “Design  synthesis  analytical characterization  eAMDE formulation sub-chronic MTD and in vivo PK of ML329 Prodrugs.”

Joanna Slusky, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, was awarded $37,875 by the KU Medical Center Research Institute as mentor for Jimmy Budiardjo for the project entitled “Designing peptide-based inhibitors of bacterial efflux pumps.”

Jingxin Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded $20,000 by the J.R. & Inez Jay Funds for his project entitled: “Mechanistic study of RNA splicing modulation by small molecules.”

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