Wednesday, June 04, 2014

InnovatioNews: 'Boettcher Foundation honors seven scientists with selection to Webb-Waring Investigators class'

Quoting from yesterday's posting in InnovatioNews:

"The Boettcher Foundation Board of Trustees today released the names of the seven early-career scientists selected for the fifth class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program...

...The 2014 Class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program includes:

* Kunhua Song, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, assistant professor of medicine – Regenerative medicine and heart development/disease

* Roger A. Bannister, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, assistant professor of medicine, Cardiology Division – Skeletal andcardiac muscle physiology

* Subhajyoti De, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine – Cancer genomics; lung cancer; somatic mutations; DNA damage and repair; algorithm development; optimization

* Loren Hough, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, assistant professor of physics – Structural biology of order and disordered proteins

* Christopher L. Gentile, PhD, Colorado State University, assistant professor of food science and human nutrition – Molecular causes of vascular dysfunction

* Amy B. Dounay, PhD, Colorado College, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry – Medicinal chemistry for African Sleeping Sickness

* Rachel L. Zemans, MD, National Jewish Hospital, assistant professor of medicine – Resolution of Alveolar Epithelial Permeability after Lung Injury Boettcher Investigators are awarded grants of $225,000, covering up to three years of research with a goal for these early-career scientists to establish themselves and become competitive for major awards from federal agencies and private foundations."

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