Month: December 2016
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Stepping up the fight against childhood diseases
John “Bud” and Rebecca Colligan, longtime supporters of the Genomics Institute, have established the Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics with matching funds from the University of California Office of the President. The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has been opening up new high-tech fronts in the battle against children’s diseases. John “Bud” and Rebecca…
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Genomics Institute Wins St. Baldrick’s Foundation ‘Battle of the Bald’ Tournament
Campus head-shaving event raised more than $28,000 for childhood cancer research By Lauren Feller, St. Baldrick’s Foundation With her son Grant in her lap, her father getting shaved in the seat next to her, and her daughter helping guide the razor, Katrina Learned’s head-shave became more than a fundraiser — it was a moving family…
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Campus inventors recognized for recent patents
By Jennifer Pittman The UC Santa Cruz Office of Research has started a new quarterly program to acknowledge researchers for their U.S. patent awards. “Groundbreaking research is conducted on campus every day,” said Mohamed Abousalem, who recently stepped into a newly created position—assistant vice chancellor for the Office of Research’s Industry Alliances and Technology Commercialization…
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Harry Noller wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
By Tim Stephens Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at UC Santa Cruz, is the winner of a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for revealing how the complex molecular machines called ribosomes translate genetic code and build the proteins in all living cells. Read the full article here
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UC Catalyst award furthers paleogenomics research
Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz will lead a project to expand the work being done by the UC Santa Cruz Human Paleogenomics Lab, an effort that’s one of the recipients of the University of California President’s Research Catalyst Awards. The project, receiving $278,000, was chosen from a pool of more than 100 proposed projects. Fehren-Schmitz’s project will…