CBSA Focus: Boettcher Investigators Announced...Boettcher Investigators Collaborate

Quoting from the Colorado BioScience Association June Focus newsletter:

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

...As members of the first class of Boettcher Investigators selected in 2010, Keith Neeves and Melissa Reynolds are each making their own marks in the scientific community."

Link to the pdf of CBSA's June Focus Newsletter (see pages two and three)

Colorado College: 'Amy Dounay Receives $225,000 Biomedical Research Award'

Quoting from the June 12th posting:

"Colorado College Assistant Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Amy Dounay ’96, who came to CC as a student on a Boettcher Scholarship and graduated with a B.A. in chemistry, has been awarded a $225,000 Boettcher Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award. She is one of only seven scientists in the state to receive the award this year. 

Award recipients represent 'some of the finest scientific minds in the state,' said Tim Schultz, president and executive director of the Boettcher Foundation. 'We are honored to have the opportunity to support their research, which has the potential to have significant impacts on human health.'"

Link to the Colorado College news story

CU Connections: 'CU leads fifth class of Boettcher Investigators'

Quoting from the June 12th CU Connections:

"Four University of Colorado medical researchers are among the 2014 Class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. Each early career scientist will receive a grant of $225,000 to further groundbreaking work that holds promise for improving human health. 

The announcement was made June 3 by Theodore F. Schlegel, M.D., chairman of the Boettcher Foundation Board of Trustees. Starting its fifth year, the Boettcher Investigators program provides for the discovery of new knowledge that improves human health through the investment in and advancement of early career scientists."

Link to CU Connections

CSU: 'Researcher studies obesity, cardiovascular disease'

Quoting from the June 6th posting:

"Christopher Gentile wants to find out why obese people are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, and he just received one of the state's biggest biomedical research grants to do it.

Gentile, an assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University, is one of only seven scientists in the state to receive a $225,000 grant from the Boettcher Foundation to support his research, which focuses on a part of the cell believed to cause decreased health in blood vessels.

During the three-year study, Gentile will use animal models to pinpoint the cell component believed to make vessels rigid and lose their ability to constrict and dilate in cases of obesity or diabetes. If the cellular culprit is confirmed, he and his team will apply their findings to humans by testing a blocking agent’s effectiveness in a group of obese test subjects as well as a control group."

Link to the full article at Today@Colorado State

BizWest: '7 scientists named Boettcher Investigators'

Quoting from yesterday's posting:

"Seven early-career scientists were selected this week by the Boettcher Foundation board of trustees for the fifth class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program.

Loren Hough, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Christopher Gentile, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition at Colorado State University, were among those chosen."

Link to BizWest

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."

Link to InnovatioNews

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