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NSF Awards $15.5M to Launch Math Institute at University of Chicago | UChicago News

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NSF Awards $15.5M to Launch Math Institute at University of Chicago | UChicago News

The new Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation at the University of Chicago comprises a collaborative group of mathematicians and statisticians from UChicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who seek to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. IMSI is funded

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Chicago Immunoengineering Center Aims for COVID-19 Vaccine | UChicago News

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Chicago Immunoengineering Center Aims for COVID-19 Vaccine | UChicago News

The Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center has launched at the University of Chicago, with a focus on developing new technologies to treat diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, and, most recently, COVID-19. Based at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, the new center will catalyze fundamental and translational research in immunology, serving as a hub for engineers,

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Fourteen MBL Affiliates Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Fourteen MBL Affiliates Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

MBL Society Members Thoru Pederson and James P. Collins, who also co-directs the MBL-ASU History of Biology seminars, are among 14 MBL-affiliated scientists who have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. All were elected to the Academy’s Biological Sciences division. These

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Otto Meyerhof: What Makes Those Muscles Twitch and Burn? | Education News

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Otto Meyerhof: What Makes Those Muscles Twitch and Burn? | Education News

Otto Myerhof received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922 for describing the “relationship between consumption of oxygen and metabolism of lactic acid in muscle.” After fleeing Nazi Germany, he was offered a position at the University of Pennsylvania and began spending summers at the MBL as a researcher (1941) and Library Researcher

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MBL Alumnus Receives Shaw Prize for Contributions to Optogenetics

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MBL Alumnus Receives Shaw Prize for Contributions to Optogenetics

Giro Miesenböck, an alumnus of the MBL’s Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences course (1994), is a co-recipient of the 2020 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for conducting fundamental research in the development of optogenetics, a revolutionary tool in neuroscience research. Miesenböck, who is based at the University of Oxford, shares

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Twelve MBL Affiliates Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Twelve MBL Affiliates Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Twelve members of the MBL’s research, education, and alumni communities have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Election to the Academy is widely considered a mark of excellence in science, and is one of the highest honors a scientist can attain.

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Promega Corp. Product Approved for Use with CDC’s COVID-19 Test | Wisconsin State Journal

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Promega Corp. Product Approved for Use with CDC's COVID-19 Test | Wisconsin State Journal

Promega supports the MBL in a variety of ways, including donating molecular cell biology resources to the MBL courses through the Scientific Vendor Partnership program. By Shelley K. Mesch A Promega Corp. product received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s test for

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Microscope Invented by Shinya Inoué is Given to Japan’s National Institute of Genetics

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Microscope Invented by Shinya Inoué is Given to Japan's National Institute of Genetics

The late Shinya Inoué was widely known for his scientific brilliance as well as his generosity, a legacy that continues to this day. Last summer, a few months before his death, Inoué blessed the transfer of the centrifuge polarizing microscope that he invented and built at MBL in collaboration with Olympus Optical and Hamamatsu Photonics.

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New AAAS Fellows Include MBL Alumni and Affiliates

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New AAAS Fellows Include MBL Alumni and Affiliates

Congratulations to several members of the MBL community who have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a lifetime honor in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in advancing science. New Fellows of the AAAS Sections on Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Neurosciences include: Section on Biological Sciences Peter Beerli,

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