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Understanding Epigenetic Regulators in Neurodevelopmental Diseases and Cancer
Northwestern Medicine investigators are advancing the understanding of two groups of transcription factors and their role in many neurodevelopmental diseases and cancers. Detailed in two complimentary review papers, the authors make the case that improving...
Ameer Named Fellow of Materials Research Society
Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society for his contributions to regenerative engineering through pioneering work developing antioxidant citrate-based polymers that are useful for musculoskeletal,...
Researchers reveal 3D structure responsible for gene expression
For the first time ever, a Northwestern University-led research team has peered inside a human cell to view a multi-subunit machine responsible for regulating gene expression. Called the Mediator-bound pre-initiation complex (Med-PIC), the structure is a key player...
Serial collaborator, optical imaging innovator sheds light on eye disease
In the world of optical imaging, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute member Hao F. Zhang, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, is at the top of his game. His groundbreaking work and research collaborations have pushed the limits of...
ALS neuron damage reversed with new compound
Scientists identify first compound to repair degenerating brain cells in paralyzing disease New compound targets neurons that initiate voluntary movement After 60 days of treatment, diseased brain cells look like healthy cells More research needed before clinical...
Job Opportunity: Research Associate, High Throughput Analysis Core, Northwestern University
The High Throughput Analysis Core (NU-HTA) has an immediate opening for a Research Associate to perform research related to analysis of cell signaling and drug discovery. NU-HTA is a shared, open-access resource established in 2004 on the Northwestern University...
Metallomics Expert Finds His Element
When it comes to running a successful metallomics lab, Keith MacRenaris, PhD, Associate Director of Science and Development in the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center (QBIC), is a rare find. “It takes expertise in both...
New videos show RNA as it’s never been seen
A new Northwestern University-led study is unfolding the mystery of how RNA molecules fold themselves to fit inside cells and perform specific functions. The findings could potentially break down a barrier to understanding and developing treatments for RNA-related...
CLP Year in Review
Hindsight is often 2020, but in the year of 2020, the playbook for academic research and discovery was re-written. Despite the profound changes in how we work and live brought on by the pandemic, the dedicated faculty, staff and students of the Chemistry of Life...
Proteomics Expert Named Interim Director of CLP
A prominent Northwestern research hub is undergoing a leadership change. Effective Jan. 1, 2021, Neil Kelleher will become interim director of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), as longtime director Thomas O’Halloran steps down. Both scientists are...
Ameer Receives Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature
Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo Ameer has been named the recipient of the 2021 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature from the Society for Biomaterials. The Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature is given to someone who has made significant...
CLP core facilities recognized with Service Excellence Awards
Seven Chemistry of Life Processes Institute-affiliated cores were recognized with 2020 Core Facilities Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) by the Office for Research at Northwestern. The user facilities were among 25 selected university-wide for general excellence in...
O’Halloran, Jewett named to National Academy of Inventors
Northwestern University professors Daniel Brown, Michael Jewett and Thomas O’Halloran have been named 2020 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI fellow status is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. The program...
Northwestern Core Manager Receives 2021 CZI Imaging Scientists Award
Emily Alex Waters, PhD, Manager for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at Northwestern University’s Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI), a Chemistry of Life Processes Institute-affiliated facility, was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Imaging...
Chemistry Undergraduate Charlie Wang Awarded 2020 CLP Lambert Fellowship
Charles Tiancheng Wang, a third-year Chemistry student at Northwestern, was awarded the 2020 Lambert Fellowship, the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s (CLP) most prestigious undergraduate award. The Fellowship was endowed in 2016 by Andrew Chan, MD, PhD...
Medical device using Northwestern-invented biomaterial receives FDA clearance
An innovative orthopedic medical device fabricated from a novel biomaterial pioneered in the laboratory of Northwestern University professor Guillermo A. Ameer has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in surgeries to attach soft...
Northwestern’s Thomas Meade Awarded World Molecular Imaging Society Gold Medal Award
Thomas J. Meade, the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Chemistry, and member of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) at Northwestern University, was awarded the World Molecular Imaging Society’s highest honor. The 2020 Gold Medal...
CLP Welcomes 2020/2021 NIH Graduate Program Trainees
This fall, the prestigious NIH-funded Chemistry of Life Processes Training Program welcomed five second-year predoctoral students and three third-year trainees whose appointments were renewed. For the first time, the cohort includes two students in the Driskill...
Andy Chan Receives 2020 Northwestern Alumni Medal
Northwestern's Alumni Association announced today that Andrew Chan, Senior Vice President of Research Biology, Genentech, and Chair of Northwestern's Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), will receive the 2020 Northwestern Alumni Medal. He was one of four...
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...
The Protein Whisperer
As research laboratories on campuses across the US slowed down in March in response to stay-at-home orders, Northwestern’s Recombinant Protein Production Core (rPPC), a Chemistry of Life Processes Institute-affiliated core facility, was running at full speed. In...
Northwestern, Argonne, and partners to launch national resource to unlock the role of metals in human health
Evanston, IL - June 26, 2020: Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) at Northwestern, the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory, and several leading research universities, will join forces to launch a first-ever national hub for...
National Center for Proteomics at Northwestern receives $7 million to expand impact
Northwestern University received $7 million this year from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to continue to push the boundaries of precision proteomics through new technologies and approaches to heart disease, cancer, neurological diseases and...
Teri Odom honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
Northwestern University chemist Teri Odom has received the 2020 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The prestigious award, given annually to three chemists outside Great Britain, recognizes scientists for high-impact research and exceptional...
‘Biotech by the Lake Investor Summit’ spotlights Northwestern cancer biotech ahead of ASCO
On May 28, 2020, 300 investors, venture firms, pharma and biotech industry members and researchers, from across the US, Canada, China, UK and beyond tuned into the second annual Biotech by the Lake Investor Summit hosted by the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute...
Mechanism behind upper motor neuron degeneration revealed
Scientists from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Belgrade have pinpointed the electrophysiological mechanism behind upper motor neuron (UMN) disease, unlocking the door to potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other...
One-step diagnostic tool receives NSF RAPID grant
Northwestern University synthetic biologists have received funding to develop an easy-to-use, quick-screen technology that can test for infectious diseases, including COVID-19, in the human body or within the environment. Similar to a pregnancy test, the tool uses one...
Biodistribution of new ACE2 therapeutic visualized by SPECT imaging
Northwestern Professor Daniel Batlle, Earle, del Greco, Levin Professor of Nephrology/Hypertension in the Feinberg School of Medicine, is working on using shorter forms of Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE2) as a therapy for kidney diseases. The devastation of...
Cell-free biotechnology could help accelerate COVID-19 therapeutics
When it comes to fighting a fast-spreading pandemic, speed is critical. Researchers at Northwestern and Cornell Universities have developed a new platform that could produce new therapies more than 10 times faster than current methods. The secret behind the platform’s...
Jewett and Gianneschi named elite medical and biological engineering fellows
Northwestern Engineering’s Michael Jewett and Nathan Gianneschi have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows. AIMBE’s College of Fellows comprises the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers...
New drug target found for COVID-19
A new potential drug target has been identified in SARS CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- by scientists who say multiple drugs will likely be needed to respond to the pandemic. Scientists from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have mapped...
Structure revealed of key chromatin-remodeling complex
Northwestern University researchers have mapped a group of proteins that play a critical role in both gene expression and repairing damaged DNA. By understanding this protein complex, called SWI/SNF, researchers hope to better understand how cancer arises. SWI/SNF...
From farm to pharmacology
As a child growing up in a large family in rural Iran, Nayereh Ghoreishi-Haack, Assistant Director, Developmental Therapeutics Core, Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) at Northwestern University, spent her days exploring the abundant orchards, bogs and farms that...
Chemists inhibit a critical gear of cell immortality
One of the hallmarks of cancer is cell immortality. A Northwestern University organic chemist and his team now have developed a promising molecular tool that targets and inhibits one of cell immortality’s underlying gears: the enzyme telomerase. This enzyme is found...
Giant Leap in Characterizing Proteins Moves Biomedicine Forward
Northwestern Proteomics, a Chemistry of Life Processes Institute-affiliated center, together with an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern mathematicians, experimentalists, biomedical engineers, and biochemists, recently published two academic papers announcing a...
Immune cells consult with neighbors to make decisions
Many people consult their friends and neighbors before making a big decision. It turns out that cells also are consulting their neighbors in the human body. Scientists and physicians have long known that immune cells migrate to the site of an infection, which...
New Insight Into Mumps, Flu and RSV
Northwestern University researchers have, for the first time, determined the 3D atomic structure of a key complex in paramyxoviruses, a family of viruses that includes mumps, human parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This information could help others...
Women in Academia, Government and Industry to ‘Spill the Tea’ on Navigating Your Science Career
Did you know that women comprise a mere 24 percent of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce? Were you also aware that the National Institutes of Health NIH gives first-time male principal investigator scientists considerably more funding than...
Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life Processes Institute: Advancing Cancer Research and Translation
Working across disciplines, several Chemistry of Life Processes Institute faculty members are accelerating the time it takes to bring new cancer therapies and diagnostic tools from the lab into clinics. In honor of World Cancer Day, here are just a few...
Northwestern Neurologist, ALS Champion, Hande Ozdinler to Discuss New Approaches to Upper Motor Neuron Degeneration
CLP faculty member Hande Özdinler, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern, will present her path-breaking research on upper motor neuron degeneration at the next CLP Chalk Talk. Özdinler's white board presentation...
Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Hatches IPO of the Decade
What happens when a highly interdisciplinary and integrated team of scientists, business leaders and students work together across fields of fundamental science, discovery, development, and finance? In the case of Monopar Therapeutics, a Chemistry of Life Processes...
Northwestern Professors Talk Gender, Mental Health and Work-life Balance at ‘CLP Spills the Tea’ Event
Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life Processes Institute held a panel discussion between female scholars in STEM on Wednesday at the Technological Institute, with the event attracting so many students that it became standing-room only. Sheila Judge, senior director for...
Chromatin organizes itself into 3D ‘forests’ in single cells
A single cell contains the genetic instructions for an entire organism. This genomic information is managed and processed by the complex machinery of chromatin -- a mix of DNA and protein within chromosomes whose function and role in disease are of increasing interest...
CLP Spills the Tea with Faculty Members to Mark 150 Years of Women at Northwestern
In light of the University's year-long celebration of '150 Years of Women at Northwestern', Chemistry of Life Processes Institute will host first of three 'CLP Spills the Tea' events on January 15 at 4:00 p.m. on the Evanston campus. The program will include tea,...
Disorderly DNA Helps Cancer Cells Evade Treatment
Each cell in the human body holds a full two meters of DNA. In order for that DNA to fit into the cell nucleus — a cozy space just one hundredth of a millimeter of space — it needs to be packed extremely tight. A new Northwestern University study has discovered that...
Budding Scientist Flourishes at Northwestern
Growing up in Michigan, Isabella (Bella) Borgula, a senior at Northwestern, developed a passion for chemistry earlier than most kids. “One thing that I distinctly remember is that my dad would buy me GIANT Microbes®, these little stuffed animals of viruses and...
Two Generations Find Their Way at Northwestern
Like many first-year students, Myung Shin ’87 was undecided about his major when he arrived at Northwestern. He was initially drawn to political science, but his parents had other plans. “They wanted me to go to medical school, but I didn’t know if that was right for...
2019 Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Discoveries and Impact
This year, the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute celebrated a decade of transformative science. Since its debut in Silverman Hall in 2009, the Institute’s team science approach to integrating engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and medicine has led to...
Innovative Plastic Upcycling Project Receives 2020 CLP Cornew Award
The rampant proliferation of plastic in the environment, one of the world’s most widely used materials, is a massive and growing concern. Over the past 50 years, the world has produced 8 billion tons of plastic. Less than half is reused, or recycled into new items....
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute Welcomes Three Feinberg Faculty Members
This fall, three members of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine joined Chemistry of Life Processes Institute to strengthen opportunities for collaboration across disciplines and translation of their groundbreaking work. The Institute’s new members...
CLP Spinout Rounds Third Base with New Treatment for Metastatic Cancers and Fibrosis
Veteran entrepreneurs and cofounders of Actuate Therapeutics, Inc., Daniel Schmitt and Andrew Mazar, PhD, are taking no chances with their lead clinical candidate 9-ING-41, a promising new treatment for advanced and drug-resistant cancers and select inflammatory...
CLP Faculty Get Kellogg Crash Course on Entrepreneurship
When it comes to running a business, even the most seasoned innovators, like Chemistry of Life Processes Institute member Richard Silverman (chemistry) who developed pregabalin, the chemical that became Lyrica®, the most financially successful drug ever to have come...
CLP Introduces the ‘Beginner’s Guide to Academic Drug Development’
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) recently introduced a new resource for Northwestern University academic drug developers who wish to explore the necessary steps in developing and eventual marketing of promising drug therapies discovered in their labs. ...
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....
Northwestern faculty elected to National Academy of Medicine
Four Northwestern University professors have been honored with election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Joining more than 2,200 active NAM members are Dr. David Cella, Dr. Susan Quaggin, John A. Rogers and Catherine Woolley. Rogers, who is already a member...
CLP startup MicroMGx Announces Collaboration with Corteva on Microbial-Based Crop Protection Products
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 8, 2019 — Corteva Agriscience and MicroMGx today announced a collaboration that aims to provide farmers a wider range of novel, microbial-based crop protection products. Under the agreement, MicroMGx will apply its metabologenomics platform to...
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Medicine
“My plan was to become a pharmacist,” says Irawati (Angki) Kandela, PhD, Assistant Director of the Developmental Therapeutics Core (DTC), a CLP-affiliated core facility, and Research Assistant Professor in the Pharmacology Department at Northwestern. Growing up in...
Catching evolution in the act
Charles Darwin was right. In his 1859 book, “On the Origin of Species,” the famed scientist hypothesized that artificial selection (or domestication) and natural selection work in the same ways. Now an international team, led by Northwestern University, has produced...
Viewing Party to Celebrate National Chemistry Week
In celebration of National Chemistry Week, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) and Northwestern's Undergraduate Chemistry Council will host a free viewing party of American Chemical Society’s ‘Program in-a-Box Marvelous Metals’ on Tuesday, October...
Dissolvable Optical Sensor Moves Medicine Forward
Treating severe brain injury often requires immediate surgery, including implantation of an electronic sensor that monitors tissues and fluids and digitally provides real-time information about intracranial pressure, temperature and wound healing. These devices,...
Building Better Biologics: A Q&A with Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Building Better Biologics: A Q&A with Danielle Tullman-Ercek Like a master Lego® builder who constructs elaborate figures using tiny interlocking blocks, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute member Danielle Tullman-Ercek manipulates parts of bacteria and viruses...
Former CLP Trainee Brings Collaborative Mindset to AbbVie
Before becoming a trainee in the Chemistry of Life Processes NIH Graduate Training Program at Northwestern, Ryan McClure was already performing research at the interface of chemistry and biology. A joint student between the labs of Regan Thomson...
ALS drug grant to spur drug discovery at Northwestern
Two Northwestern University scientists have received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to collaborate and investigate drug therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The grant was awarded to P. Hande Ozdinler, associate professor of...
CLP Research Tools, Expertise Continue To Grow
Watching neurons die provides Richard Morimoto with clues on how he might better keep them alive. The molecular biologist specifically studies neurons exposed to cell stress as well as those expressing proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases.Now, a new...
Nanoparticles’ movement reveals whether they can successfully target cancer
Targeted drug-delivery systems hold significant promise for treating cancer effectively by sparing healthy surrounding tissues. But the promising approach can only work if the drug hits its target. A Northwestern University research team has developed a new way to...
Three Distinguished Researchers Join CLP’s Faculty Executive Committee
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute recently welcomed Northwestern faculty members Amy Rosenzweig, Danielle Tullman-Ercek, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz to its Faculty Executive Committee. All three distinguished researchers are members of the Institute. The...
Found In Translation
The deaths were palpable. Just six years after the start of a medical career he envisioned would be filled with helping patients heal, Richard D’Aquila, instead, found himself at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic. What he did next continues to alter the lives of...
Halo’s ’40 under 40 Chicago Scientists’ Recognizes CLP Members Evan Scott and Arthur Prindle
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute members Evan Scott and Arthur Prindle were among a select group of Chicago scientists recognized as rising stars dedicated to translating research into real-world applications that meaningfully impact people’s lives in Halo's...
CLP member Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD, other faculty honored with Presidential Early Career Awards
Five Northwestern University professors — chemist Danna Freedman, computer scientist Han Liu, economist Mar Reguant, neuroscientist Joel Voss and surgeon Jason Wertheim — have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)....
‘Trojan horse’ anticancer drug disguises itself as fat
For years, drug developers have tried, but failed, to build the perfect biological Trojan horse. Now, a new approach that disguises chemotherapeutic drugs as fat stands to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors. For the first time, a team of Northwestern researchers,...
CLP Collaborators Publish New Insight into Liver Cancer
Congratulations to NU scientists Richard B. Silverman and Neil L. Kelleher on their recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, titled “Mechanism of Inactivation of Ornithine Aminotransferase by (1 S,3...
Methods pinpoint copper binding sites in enzyme from methane-munching bacteria
A pair of recent papers helps clear up a longstanding mystery about the enzyme particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). The enzyme sits in the membranes of bacteria that consume methane as their main food source, and catalyzes the conversion of methane to methanol....
Electron-behaving nanoparticles rock current understanding of matter
It’s not an electron. But it sure does act like one. Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that nanoparticles engineered with DNA in colloidal crystals — when extremely small — behave just like electrons. Not only has this...
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...
CLP Trainee Jennifer Ferrer Aims High and Finds Her Balance
Northwestern University graduate student and Chemistry of Life Processes Institute trainee Jennifer Rachel Ferrer will finish her PhD tomorrow as a joint student of Drs. Chad Mirkin (chemistry), and Jason Wertheim (surgery). She will present her research on how...
Guillermo Ameer receives University’s annual Walder Award
Guillermo A. Ameer, professor of biomedical engineering and surgery, has been named the 18th recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. A pioneer in the emerging field of regenerative engineering, Ameer is known for his creative...
Three scientists recognized as exceptional young researchers
Northwestern University faculty members William Dichtel, Michael Jewett and Emily Weiss have been named finalists for the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. They are among 31 scientists and engineers being recognized nationally this year. The...
New tool could help molecular biologists understand complex processes within cells
Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new platform that can image single molecules in 3-D, allowing deeper probes into the inner workings of cells. The platform uses spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy (sSMLM), a tool that can...
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute welcomes three new members to its Executive Advisory Board
Three pharmaceutical and life sciences industry leaders: Michael Boyne, PhD, Vice President, Product Development and Analytics, Cour Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc.; Christopher J. O’Connell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Waters Corporation; and...
Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students
How can high school students learn about a technology as complex and abstract as CRISPR? It’s simple: just add water. A Northwestern University-led team has developed BioBits, a suite of hands-on educational kits that enable students to perform a range of biological...
Core facility experts, researchers gather to exchange best practices in pre-clinical imaging
Core facility experts, researchers gather to exchange best practices in preclinical imaging From preclinical imaging best practices and career opportunities for facility managers, to core research and commercialization, the 2019 Pre-clinical Imaging Consortium (PIC)...
Biology Unlocked: Emerging Applications of Cell-Free Systems
Today, biology is easier than ever to observe but still incredibly difficult to understand. Powerful advancements in DNA sequencing and synthesis have inched scientists ever forward in their quest to “master” biology. But countless challenges still remain. When...
New imaging technique reveals ‘burst’ of activity before cell death
Studying the movement of tiny cells is no small task. For chromatin, the group of DNA, RNA, and protein macromolecules packed within our genome, motion is an integral part of its active role as a regulator of how our genes get expressed or repressed. "Understanding...
Preclinical Imaging Consortium 2019
CLP's Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging to Host the 5th Annual Preclinical Imaging Consortium April 28 - 30, 2019Northwestern UniversityNorris University Center, 2nd Floor1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 This week, the Chemistry of Life Processes...
Erik Andersen receives award to study the evolution of behavior
Erik C. Andersen, a molecular geneticist at Northwestern University, has received a Human Frontier Science Program grant to study the evolution of behavior. Andersen will lead an international team to study the repeatability of the genetic mechanisms underlying...
Translational Research Shines At CLP Institute’s ‘Biotech Summit’
“Renewed hope for millions.” That was the promise on display when a team of world-renowned Northwestern faculty presented their pathbreaking research as part of the inaugural Oppenheimer Biotech Summit by the Lake.Joined by partners and presenters from...
Video: Chemistry of Life Processes Institute: Transforming Science. Transforming Life.
VIDEO: Chemistry of Life Processes Institute: Transforming Science. Transforming Life. "The remarkable thing about CLP is the number of inventions that have come out of this small institute. It’s an incubator that really has no parallel." – Teresa Woodruff, Thomas J....
Point-of-use Diagnostics Show Potential in Detecting Plant Disease and Beyond
Current methods for detecting crops with disease require expensive lab equipment located far from the field, but point-of-use diagnostics technology being developed by Northwestern Engineering will be able to help farmers test their crops for disease using nothing but...
Revealing the Rules Behind Virus Scaffold Construction
A team of researchers including Northwestern Engineering faculty has expanded the understanding of how virus shells self-assemble, an important step toward developing techniques that use viruses as vehicles to deliver targeted drugs and therapeutics throughout the...
Promising young faculty receive prestigious career award
Three Northwestern University assistant professors — Nicholas Diakopoulos, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and Sepehr Vakil — have received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most...
A new approach to a deadly disease
A New Approach to a Deadly Disease A career spent bucking convention leads Bill Klein to new Alzheimer's diagnostics and therapeutics “When I was in graduate school, three papers per month were published on Alzheimer’s disease. Now, there are thousands every month.”...
New technology gives unprecedented look inside capillaries
More than 40 billion capillaries — tiny, hair-like blood vessels — are tasked with carrying oxygen and nutrients to the far reaches of the human body. But despite their sheer number and monumental importance to basic functions and metabolism, not much is known about...
In the Immune System’s Trenches, a New Discovery
Few everyday scenarios illicit as much trepidation as a nearby sneeze during flu season. Suddenly surrounded by tens of thousands of potentially virus-filled particles, a person’s evolving cellular reaction actually matters far more than the ability to shield one’s...
Pediatric leukemia ‘super drug’ could be developed in the coming years
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered two successful therapies that slowed the progression of pediatric leukemia in mice, according to three studies published over the last two years in the journal Cell, and the final paper published Dec. 20 in Genes &...
Carla Rosenfeld appointed associate director of CLP’s Quantitative Bioelement Imaging Center
The Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) has appointed Dr. Carla Rosenfeld associate director, Quantitative Bioelement Imaging Center (QBIC) at Northwestern University. In this capacity, Rosenfeld will lead the facility into its next phase of growth and...
Full-Body Scan Could Improve Chemotherapy Effectiveness
A new full-body scan could help clinicians to better assess toxicity during cancer treatment, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Clinical Cancer Research. The scan, which detects the presence of molecules exposed during tissue damage, could give a...
Young black gay men have vastly higher HIV rates yet fewer partners
Young black men who have sex with men (MSM) are 16 times more likely to have an HIV infection than their white peers despite more frequent testing for HIV and being less likely to have unsafe sex, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The study was recently...
Altruism, curiosity drive CLP undergraduate awardee Viswajit Kandula
“As an undergrad, I finally thought I knew what I wanted to do, but I’ve been constantly swayed by new things that are creative and exciting,” says Viswajit Kandula, this year’s recipient of Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s Chicago Area Undergraduate Research...
Faculty Perspectives: Cancer
Almost everyone has been touched by cancer in some way — whether they are a patient, caregiver, family member or friend. And while new prevention protocols and treatment strategies are attacking cancer in amazing ways, Northwestern is pushing for even more innovation...