Cancer Biology student wins prestigious predoc to postdoc bridge grant
Fourth year Cancer Biology student Payal Tiwari was awarded a new and prestigious NIH National Cancer Institute F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award. This award was established to identify and encourage outstanding graduate students to commit to pursuing careers as independent...
Antibiotics vs. Alzheimer's?
Professors Sam Sisodia (Neurobiology) and Eugene Chang (Medicine) study the effects of changes in the gut microbiome in a recent Science Life article....
Dean Vicky Prince Interviewed On Career Training
Dean of Graduate Affairs Vicky Prince was interviewed by Neuronline about training graduate students for diverse career paths.
Prince is one of four co-PIs for myCHOICE, UChicago BSD's NIH Broadening Experiences in Science Training...
UChicago Researchers find key to asthma resistance in Amish children
Research involving Hutterite and Amish communities has led to new understandings of innate asthma immunity in children, according to a paper published in the ...
Bob Grossman featured for Genomic Data Commons work
Bob Grossman, Principal Investigator for the Genomic Data Commons (GDC) and director of the Center for Data Intensive Science at UChicago, was recently featured in ...
Is Your Soap Messing with Your Microbiome?
UChicago professor Jack Gilbert (Ecology and Evolution; Surgery) and Microbiology and ISTP graduate student Alyson L. Yee are mentioned in an article in ...
2016 Fellows Fete
BSD graduate student recipients of fellowships from the NIH, NSF, and other foundations and institutions gathered in the GCIS Atrium last Wednesday, April 6, to celebrate their accomplishments with faculty and staff.
Developmental Biology Mini-Symposium Showcases Faculty and Student Research
On April 28, 2016, the Committee on Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology and the NICHD-supported Developmental Biology Training Program sponsored a mini-symposium on developmental biology. Graduates, current students, and faculty presented their work, including ...
BSD Students Create Gallery-Worthy Art
A group of University of Chicago and Northwestern graduate students and postdocs, including BSD students Adam Brown, Kevin Song, Celia Fernandez, Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan, Tim Fessenden, Patrick McCall, and Tim Sosa, recently collaborated on a one-night exhibition, The Art of Science, at...