Faculty Highlights
CU Boulder researchers have identified a surprising new player in the disease—an ancient, virus-like protein best known, paradoxically, for its essential role in enabling placental development. The findings were recently published in the
Թ of Colorado soars into top five for launching startupsCU Boulder’s startups launched in 2021 included Prometheus Materials, a company spun out of the labs of Wil Srubar, Mija Hubler and Sherri Cook in Civil, Environmental, and
With a vote by the CU Board of Regents, the Թ of Colorado recently recognized Karolin Luger as a Distinguished Professor—the highest honor bestowed upon faculty across the system’s four campuses.
Whiteley, assistant professor of biochemistry, has won a NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which is reserved for “exceptionally creative early career scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects.” It is a $1.5 million, five-year grant.
The NIH recently awarded Dr. Joseph Falke with a 5-year MIRA / R35 grant to continue their research on a membrane-based signaling circuit central to leukocyte chemotaxis and many human cancers. The grant ($2.0M total costs) begins January 1,
The Falke lab's recent publication "Single Molecule Studies Reveal Regulatory Interactions between Master Kinases PDK1, AKT1 and PKC" was selected by the Biophysical Journal editors as "New and Notable".