CLP Newsletter Fall 2018
Sending cancer packing: $2 million NSF grant funds novel strategies to prevent cancer treatment resistance
One of the most intractable obstacles in treating and curing cancer is the tumor’s ability to adapt to and resist treatments. Although many new and effective drugs are available, according to the National Cancer Institute, “nearly all current treatments face the same...
Video: Cross-training tomorrow’s scientists
VIDEO: Cross-training tomorrow’s scientists “CLP is the mothership for bringing the chemist and the biologist and engineers together.” – Rick Silverman, Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor, inventor of the blockbuster drug Lyrica® Solving the most pressing problems in human...
Campfire and chemistry inspire CLP donors
When Patrick Martin, Managing Director, Martin Investment Management, LLC, first heard about the idea to form a new institute at Northwestern University that would combine the strengths of different fields of study into one effort focused on finding new drugs and...
CLP welcomes two new board members
This year, two leaders in pharmaceuticals and bioscience, respectively, have joined the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s Executive Advisory Board. The newest members of the board are Sheila Westmoreland, DPM, MPH, PMP, senior director, Gene Therapy, Sarepta...
Understanding the full puzzle of proteins: A chemistry pioneer works to improve a flawed test for a common cancer
DNA sequencing used to cost thousands of dollars. Now, you can pay $99 for a genetic screening, all without leaving your house. “The genome was a wild frontier in the 90s, but ten years later, it wasn’t,” says molecular biosciences professor and Chemistry of Life...
From the factory to the front lines: Combating superbugs and other threats through on-demand medicine
When it comes to fighting drug resistance and other emergent health threats like Ebola, AIDS, H1N1, SARS, time is of the essence. “It’s amazing to think that by 2050, antibiotic resistance will threaten 10 million lives per year which is more than cancer kills today.”...
Grad students, researchers talk science at CLP Core Crawl
More than 250 Northwestern graduate students, researchers and scientists gathered at Silverman Hall in July for the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s Core Crawl, an annual networking event and facilities expo. While enticing researchers with craft beer, pizza...
CLP Research Centers and Core Updates
More CLP Faculty News
- Thomas Bozza: Sniffing Out Olfaction’s Molecular Underpinnings
- Ali Shilatifard: 3-D Structure of COMPASS Protein Complex Revealed
- Teresa Woodruff: Cancer patients guaranteed oncofertility treatment coverage under new Illinois law
- Guillermo Ameer:Chicago researchers develop new bandage that accelerates healing
- Karl Scheidt: Northwestern researchers on a big breakthrough: Slowing cancer cell growth
- Erik Andersen receives prestigious NSF honor for young faculty
- Michael Jewettand Jessica Stark, (CLP NSF Graduate Fellow): BioBits educational kits bring synthetic and molecular biology experiments into K-12 classrooms
- Vadim Backman:Cheek swab may help diagnose precancers, early malignancies
- Michael Jewett Receives Young Investigator Award Award honors his contributions to the field of biochemical engineering
- Josh Leonard and Neda Bagher: Northwestern Receives First NIH Research Project Grant Dedicated to Synthetic Biology
- Michael Jewett:Bioengineers create pathway to personalized medicine
- Guillermo Ameer, Teresa Woodruff: New Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering Launches
- Susan Quaggin awarded Ver Steeg Fellowship
Happenings
- Sept 25-28 – CLP/Physical Sciences-Oncology Center leadership and investigators will participate in the 2018 CSBC/PS-ON Annual Investigators Meetingsponsored by the National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland
- Oct 1, Nov 5, and Dec. 3, 11 – noon – CLP Research Forums for CLP pre-doctoral trainees, students and postdocs
- Oct 4, 2-4PM – Physical Sciences-Oncology Center “Science Jam”
- Oct 15,4PM – Silverman 1-510 – Chemistry of Life Processes Predoctoral Training Program Kick-Off Reception and Poster Session
- Oct 24 – CLP will host senior leaders from the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo) to share institutional best practices
- Nov 1, 8:30 – 5PM – Biannual meeting of CLP Executive Advisory Board
CLP Newsletter Summer 2019
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Celebrates 10 Years of Transformative Science
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Celebrates 10 Years of Transformative Science This fall marked the ten-year anniversary of Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) Institute’s debut in The Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics....
T32 Forum: June
TITLE: CLP Trainee Research Forum PRESENTERS:Cydney Martell, Rocklin & Jewett GroupsRecombinant expression of de novo designed protein librariesFrank Tucci, Rosenzweig & He GroupsInvestigating the role of the membrane in particulate methane monooxygenase...
Improv helps Northwestern graduate students build a better science pitch
“When scientists, or anyone in a STEM field, are communicating their work, it needs to have a ‘so what’ factor. Why does this matter to me, or why should I care about what it is that you’re telling me,” says Heather Barnes, Founder of Improv @ Work, LLC, and a...
CLP Board sponsors undergraduate research
Training and inspiring the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists is central to the mission of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute at Northwestern. This year, four aspiring scientists will join a growing list of students who have received funding...
Diverse, engaging job opportunities await CLP trainees
With more than 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, preceded by a decade as an independent researcher in academia, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence William Sargent shared his perspective and advice about potential science career...
2019 CLP Cornew Awards kick-start three blue-sky team science projects
This year, three teams of Chemistry of Life Processes Institute investigators received $90,000, collectively, in CLP-Cornew Innovation Awards to pursue potentially transformative proof-of-concept studies to better detect, diagnose and treat disease. The awardees...
CLP faculty spinout Durametrix developing novel tox screen method to accelerate drug development
A major dilemma faced by many people undergoing chemotherapy for cancer is whether the drugs will cause more harm than good. “Chemotherapeutic drugs can have serious side effects. Some of the adverse events in chemotherapy, such as heart failure, can even take as long...
More CLP Faculty News
- Guillermo Ameer receives University’s annual Walder Award
- Michael Jewett Three scientists recognized as exceptional young researchers
- Hao Zhang and Cheng Sun: New tool could help molecular biologists understand complex processes within cells
- Michael Jewett: Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students
- Vadim Backman, Guillermo Ameer, and Igal Szleifer: New imaging technique reveals ‘burst’ of activity before cell death
- Erik Andersen receives award to study the evolution of behavior
- Julius Lucks: Point-of-use Diagnostics Show Potential in Detecting Plant Disease and Beyond
- Danielle Tullman-Ercek: Revealing the Rules Behind Virus Scaffold Construction
- Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy: Promising young faculty receive prestigious career award
- Bill Klein:: A New Approach to a Deadly Disease
Happenings
- July 11, 3-5PM – CLP Core Crawl. Open to the public!
- Sept. 12, all day – CMIDD & Department of Chemistry seminar: Tianning Diao, PhD, New York University
- Oct. 15, 11-1PM – CLP Core Expo, Lurie Cancer Center, Ryan Family Atrium (west). Open to the public!
- Nov. 7, 8:30 – 5PM – Biannual meeting of CLP Executive Advisory Board