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Training Grant from the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). - March 31, 2009
The Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences has been awarded a training grant from the National Institutes of Health to directly support our graduate students. Read full story.
Two Biophysical Sciences Faculty (Margaret Gardel and Rustem Ismagilov) have been honored with National Institutes of Health 2007 Director's Pioneer Awards. - September 18, 2007
The National Institutes of Health is awarding separate research awards to four young University of Chicago scientists totaling $8 million to conduct promising but unconventional research that could lead to new medical treatments and a better understanding of the factors that contribute to problem adolescent behavior. The NIH grants are part of a $100 million investment in the future of science to 39 innovative researchers nationwide. Read full story.
The Janelia Farm Graduate Program - October 10, 2006
The University of Chicago has agreed to provide a year of interdisciplinary training to graduate students accepted to the new HHMI Janelia Farms research campus in Maryland. The University of Cambridge is the other participating institution. Read full story.
Curriculum Director hired - August 1, 2006
The new curriculum director for the Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences started today. Adam T. Hammond, a UofC alum (Ph.D. ’01), was recruited from Cornell University where his interdisciplinary studies focused on the allergic response and the kinetic mechanisms of signal transduction across the cellular plasma membrane. Dr. Hammond will oversee curriculum development for the new program, including building an exciting new lab course, and continue his study of membrane biophysics.
Graduate Program Administrator hired - July 1, 2006
Dr. Michele Wittels is hired as the Graduate Program Administrator. Michele, received a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago with Patricia Spear. She has worked in the graduate program in the Department of Comparative Human Development at Chicago and as a Research Assistant for Professor Richard Shweder.
New President - July 1, 2006
On July 1, 2006, Robert J. Zimmer became the 13th president of the University of Chicago. President Zimmer returned to Chicago from Brown University where he had served as provost since 2002. Prior to his position at Brown, Mr. Zimmer was a University of Chicago faculty member and administrator for more than two decades. As a University of Chicago administrator, he served as chairman of the mathematics department, deputy provost, and vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory. Read more about President Zimmer.
New space for Interdisciplinary science - April 27, 2006
Ellen and Melvin Gordon have donated $25 million toward the University’s largest science building, constructed to exacting standards so that scientists could pursue innovative research that crosses the traditional boundaries between physics, chemistry and biology.
HHMI Awards $10 Million for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education - November 22, 2005
In recognition of the University’s excellence in both training and interdisciplinary research, the University of Chicago has been selected to participate in a historic partnership between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This partnership marks the first time that these twin pillars of biomedical research have directly collaborated. The HHMI/NIH-National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering collaboration is designed to encourage training at the interface between the physical and biomedical sciences, and The University of Chicago is proud to offer the Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences as a model of this new initiative. Read full story.