Nicole Marie Hoitsma

Nicole Marie Hoitsma Recognized as a 2023 Damon Runyon Fellow

Aug. 16, 2023

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $3.9 million to exceptional early-career scientists Nicole Marie Hoitsma, PhD [HHMI Fellow] , with her sponsor Karolin Luger, PhD, at University of Colorado, Boulder, has been named one of 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. The Damon Runyon...

Dr. Marvin Caruthers

Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers

June 28, 2023

Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has won the inaugural Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology ( https://merkinprize.org/ ) for developing an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA. The chemical reactions that he discovered in the early 1980s to accurately and quickly assemble nucleotides into...

Aaron Whiteley 2023

Ƶ Boulder Biochemistry Professor Aaron Whiteley named a Pew Scholar

June 13, 2023

The biochemistry assistant professor is investigating how inflammatory proteins called NLRs establish the first line of defense against viral infection in bacteria and humans Aaron Whiteley, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in...

Halil Aydin

Halil Aydin One of Three Ƶ Professors to Win Prestigious Boettcher Investigator Award

June 12, 2023

The awards are part of $1.88 million in 2023 biomedical research grant funding for Colorado researchers Halil Aydin is one of three University of Colorado Boulder assistant professors who have been named 2023 Boettcher Investigators, each earning $235,000 in grant funding to support up to three years of biomedical research...

Luger Distinguished Professor Award 2023

Karolin Luger is one of a select group of professors to be recognized as a Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed upon faculty members

Feb. 15, 2023

With a vote by the Ƶ Board of Regents, the University of Colorado recently recognized Karolin Luger as a Distinguished Professor—the highest honor bestowed upon faculty across the system’s four campuses.

Whiteley 2022

Aaron Whiteley among three Ƶ scientists to win support for high-risk, high-reward research

Oct. 4, 2022

Whiteley, assistant professor of biochemistry, has won a NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which is reserved for “exceptionally creative early career scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects.” It is a $1.5 million, five-year grant. Whiteley’s research aims to shed light on why variations in bacteria in the gut microbiome correspond to...

Aaron Whiteley 2022

Biochemistry Assistant Professor Aaron Whiteley wins prestigious Boettcher award

July 5, 2022

Roy Parker Portrait

Professor Roy Parker to deliver April 5 Distinguished Research Lecture on “Adventures with RNA”

March 22, 2022

Joseph Falke

Joseph Falke awarded 5-year MIRA / R35 NIH grant to continue research on a membrane-based signaling circuit

Jan. 1, 2022

The NIH recently awarded Dr. Joseph Falke with a 5-year MIRA / R35 grant to continue their research on a membrane-based signaling circuit central to leukocyte chemotaxis and many human cancers. The grant ($2.0M total costs) begins January 1, 2022, and the lab looks forward to recruiting new members! Abstract...

Roy Parker Portrait

BioFrontiers Director and Distinguished Professor Roy Parker makes Clarivate Web of Science 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list

Dec. 6, 2021

BioFrontiers faculty continue to be influential in their fields. Clarivate Analytics identified Roy Parker and Jason Burdick in the top 1% of highly cited researchers in their field for 2021. Highly Cited Researchers ™ have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over...

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