The grant is intended to fund the development of an assay that can be used to screen chemical libraries for compounds that enhance the activation of immune cells. If we can find active compounds, they could form the basis of strategies to enhance anti-viral and anti-cancer immunity.

This award, from Connecticut Innovations, is for work entitled  “A Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease”.

Check your UConn email for registration details.

Eric May has received an R35 (MIRA) award from NIH Institute of General Medical Sciences.  This flexible award will fund research in the May lab that falls under the project umbrella of “Structural Dynamics of Viral Proteins: Computational Investigation of Capsids, Lytic Peptides and Nucleoproteins Under Varying Conditions”

You can find the audio of this interview, on cephalopods, symbiosis, and immunity, at https://soundcloud.com/scifri/closing-out-the-cephaloparty Sarah’s interview begins at 9 minutes into this segment.

Barbara will receive the award at the 2016 American Society of Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday December 6, 2016.

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Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program May term and summer session 2016. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This May term and summer session we will be offering six modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites. (more…)

Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program May term and summer session 2016. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This May term and summer session we will be offering six modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites. (more…)