Division of Biomedical Sciences Division of Biomedical Sciences Division of Biomedical Sciences University of Illinois
12.01.09
Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Research Integrity
 
Due Date: 11.23.09
NIH Exploratory Grant Award in Basic Cancer Research (R21)
 
Due Date: 11.24.09
DOD Multiple Sclerosis Research Program
 
ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
 
Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
Computer scientist Saurabh Sinha led the team of researchers that developed a new statistical technique that allows scientists to scan a genome.

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Engineering alumus develops novel robotic knee

Horst cofounded Tibion Bionic Technologies with Kern Bhugra in 2002, and began creating and marketing the PK 100 Bionic Leg Orthosis, a powered, assistive leg device that enhances knee rehabilitation therapy.

ENGINEERING NEWS
First draft of the pig: Researchers sequence swine genome
Lawrence B. Schook, right, a professor of biomedical sciences, with animal sciences professor Jonathan Beever. Schook led the international pig genome sequencing project, which has produced a draft of the pig genome.

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Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials
Chemistry graduate students Tiffany Hopper and Nick Marshall and professor Yi Lu have mimicked nature in their development of tailor-made proteins.


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