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Steeped in a rich tradition of patient care, research, and discovery, the Biological Sciences Division is home to a diversity of scholars, clinicians, learners, and administrators.
In “A Place for Us” the Office of Diversity & Inclusion delves into who we are, what we value, and what makes us unique. Watch as our colleagues reflect on their experiences in the division and find out why the BSD is a place for us.
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91 Pritzker School of Medicine students learned where they'll be doing their residencies during the annual Match Day tradition.
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Brandon Pierce and team measure DNA methylation in tissue samples from smokers and see the body’s defense mechanisms against environmental exposures.
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Single-cell RNA-sequencing by Paschalis Kratsios and Jayson Smith builds a complete map of adult motor neurons in a classic animal model.
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Pritzker student Nitin Vidyasagar digs into data on why so few facilities use long-acting injectable buprenorphine to help people with opioid use disorder.
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Pediatric Cancer Data Commons, led by Sam Volchenboum, is one of five winners of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge. This challenge engaged researchers, community scientists, educators, innovators, and the broader public to highlight efforts to expand access to research for the benefit of science and society.
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Spiers will provide leadership to Office of Academic Affairs staff, supporting more than 1,600 tenure-track faculty, clinical scholars, clinical and research associates, instructors and lecturers across the BSD.
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Nominations for the 2024 BSD Clinical Research Awards are now open! Any faculty or staff person in the Biological Sciences Division or UChicago Medicine may nominate BSD staff and faculty for the awards. Nominations will close on April 30, 2024 and winners will be announced during Clinical Trials Day (May 20) celebrations. Click on the link above to learn more and make a nomination.
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The BSD Chicago Fellows Program is an internationally competitive postdoctoral fellowship program supporting the career advancement of exceptional and creative postdoctoral scientists. We are pleased to announce that two fellowships have been awarded to the following early-career researchers from our most recent competition:
- Ellen Lesser will join the Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology this summer after completing her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Washington in the spring. Under the mentorship of Robert Carrillo and Elizabeth Heckscher, Ellen will be working to understand error correction mechanisms during the formation of sensorimotor circuits in Drosophila.
- Carla Hoge will join the John Novembre lab in the Department of Human Genetics this summer after completing her PhD in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Carla will be using the extensive genomic data she collected from the Great Barrier Reef during her graduate work to investigate the historical gene flow patterns of the reef-building stony coral Acropora millepora.
We congratulate the Fellows, and their faculty mentors, for this recognition, and look forward to welcoming them to the University of Chicago.
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MYSTERY MASCOT
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You are welcome here, so says this wounded green creature
Who is this friendly figure? What’s their name and what part of our organization do they represent?
Email Tobias Spears, TLSpears@uchicago.edu with your answers. You could win a mystery prize!
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FEATURED EVENTS
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With Diann Burns, former Chicago news anchor for WLS-TV and CBS-TV
April 2
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A celebration of scholarship and research computing, from the Research Computing Center
April 30
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April 4
Leaders across the clinical research enterprise have developed a multi-functional Clinical Research Modernization Plan. This town hall will provide additional details for how the plan will enable the organization to achieve the following goals:
- Improve existing processes and workflows, enhance communication and training for researchers, and optimize existing resources to eliminate pain points in the clinical research processes
- Reduce study initiation times (Regulatory & Contracting/Budgeting) to 90 days
- Reduce activation times (Pharmacy & Operational Readiness) to 30 days
- Increase clinical research staff retention by improving the overall work environment, creating more job satisfaction, better training, and internal mobility opportunities
- Speakers to include Dean Anderson, Dr. Walter Stadler, Dr. Kunle Odunsi and other faculty and administrative leaders
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LAB NOTEBOOK
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More research publications and viewpoints from our faculty and trainees:
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Send science and research news to our team to be considered for future editions.
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