Sabrina Spencer, PhD Presents at Biden Cancer Moonshot Program

Dr. Sabrina Spencer Shares Cancer Research Expertise with the Office of Science and Technology Policy White House Cabinet Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar

July 24, 2024

White House Science Official Comes to Ƶ Anschutz for Cancer Briefing, Moonshot Updates Arati Prabhakar, PhD, and a panel of elected officials and Ƶ leaders shared information on the fight against cancer. Dr. Sabrina Spencer, a Ƶ Boulder Biochemistry Professor and Ƶ Cancer Center member, recently presented her lab's cancer...

Sabrina Spencer Accepts the Anne Heidenthal Prize

Chroma awards Prof. Sabrina Spencer, PhD the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research

July 18, 2024

From the Chroma Technology Website: This year, Chroma Technology is happy to present the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research award to Prof. Sabrina Spencer from the University of Colorado Boulder. This annual international prize is awarded to a young scientist who has performed extraordinary research in the field of...

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Biochemist wins $750k for novel cancer research

Feb. 3, 2021

Sabrina L. Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced recently . She is also one of seven new winners of...

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Sabrina Spencer honored with a Provost Faculty Achievement Award

Aug. 10, 2020

Congratulations to Biochemistry Professor Sabrina Spencer, recipient of a 2020 Provost Faculty Achievement Award! From the Provost’s Letter: “In selecting you for this award, the faculty committee pointed to the importance of your article published in the high-impact journal Science: Temporal integration of mitogen history in mother cells controls proliferation...

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To divide or not to divide? The mother cell may decide

April 2, 2020

When do cells decide to divide? For 40 years, the textbook answer has been that this decision occurs in the first phase of a cell’s existence – right after a mother cell divides to become daughter cells. But researchers at Ƶ Boulder have found that it’s actually the mother cell...

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Ƶ Boulder attracts a record $631 million in annual research funding

Oct. 7, 2019

Ƶ Boulder research attracted a record $631 million in funding in fiscal year 2019 for groundbreaking studies that investigate a changing environment, explore new opportunities in space, mitigate the effects of natural hazards, advance biomedical research and seek cleaner, more sustainable energy solutions.

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Biochemist wins top award for study of cellular proliferation

Oct. 5, 2018

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program to fund Sabrina Spencer’s Ƶ Boulder research that could shed light on cancer treatment Scientists do not fully understand how cells choose between proliferation and quiescence (a state of non-proliferation) but a University of Colorado Boulder biochemist’s novel proposal to study the issue has won...

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Some mother cells kick DNA damage 'down the road' to offspring

June 7, 2017

A new University of Colorado Boulder study has shown that some dividing human cells are “kicking the can down the road,” passing on low-level DNA damage to offspring, causing daughter cells to pause in a quiescent, or dormant, state previously thought to be random in origin.