Nobel laureate Michael Levitt to receive the 2024 Carrier Medal
Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, a professor of structural…
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‘Silent’ mutations found to have repercussions beyond their own gene
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that "silent" or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences.
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Outsmarting antibiotic resistance: Mobashery lab and collaborators find a new way to fight MRSA
In work recently published in Nature Chemical Biology, a team of researchers led by Shahriar Mobashery at the University of Notre Dame have found a possible way to treat…
Two researchers from the University of Notre Dame receive recognition for publications and images from the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF).
Two researchers from the University of Notre Dame are recieving recognition for publications and images from the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF). Each year, the NDIIF provides imaging awards to recognize and honor researchers who use the facility…
Women Who Empower: Sharon Stack
In the West of Ireland, we know Sharon Stack as an advocate and cofounder of Biseach, a cancer research collaboration project that builds on the complementary strengths of Galway and Notre Dame cancer research.
Paul Bohn named director of the University of Notre Dame Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative
Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural director of the new Bioengineering…
Graduate students to present research, compete for prize money in annual Three Minute Thesis competition
Nine University of Notre Dame graduate students will compete for $4,500 in prize money during the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28) inside Jordan Auditorium at the Mendoza College of Business on campus. It is open to the public.
Immeasurable Benefits
If Schnell has a mathematician’s mind, he also has a philosopher’s heart and a theologian’s soul. He distributes a motto for the college on bookmarks: Spes in caelis, pes in terris. Hope in heaven, feet on earth
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Understudied cell in the brain could be key to treating glioblastoma
In a new study in NPJ Genomic Medicine, researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found that a largely understudied cell could offer new insight into how the aggressive, primary brain cancer is able to resist immunotherapy.
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Too much like us? Researchers uncover key reason a promising cancer therapy is often unsuccessful
Neoantigens, which are molecules found on tumor cells that incorporate mutations, help our immune system fight cancers and could be the most promising components of future cancer vaccines—if only scientists knew with a high degree of certainty which neoantigens work.
A collaboration of scientists…
Looking back in time: Saurja DasGupta investigates the origins of life on Earth
Saurja DasGupta, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, attempts to pull back the curtain on four-plus billion years of history to investigate the origins of life itself.
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Schnell receives SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award
Santiago Schnell, the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, will receive the Distinguished Scientist…
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Schnell joins inaugural statewide rare disease advisory council
Santiago Schnell, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to a new statewide advisory council to explore new directions for assisting patients with…
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Notre Dame tops $200 million in annual research funding for third straight year
During fiscal year 2023, the University of Notre Dame received nearly $216 million in new research award funding, topping $200 million for the third year in a row.
This total includes 824 separate awards, the largest number the University has ever received.
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Fighting Irish, Fighting Cancer: University of Galway signs a cancer research agreement with the University of Notre Dame
Cancer researchers at the University of Galway and Notre Dame’s Harper Cancer Research Institute have come together to establish the Biseach Initiative, a strategic cancer research collaboration, which aims…
Holly Goodson Elected as Fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology
Holly Goodson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has been selected as a Fellow of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). She joins 18 other distinguished scientists from across the globe in the 2023 cohort of fellows. Her formal recognition will take place in Boston later this year at Cell Bio 2023, the joint meeting of the ASCB and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
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Seven Notre Dame faculty receive Early Career Awards from the National Science Foundation
During the 2022-2023 academic year, seven researchers at the University of Notre Dame received prestigious early career awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The Early…
Champion appointed Associate Dean; Gezelter and Kolberg receive promotions
Patricia A. Champion, Ph.D., has been appointed the next Associate Dean for Research, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies effective July 1, 2023. She replaces Michael Hildreth, who transitions to his…
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STIR grants energize new science/engineering research projects at Notre Dame
The first Seed Transformative Interdisciplinary Research (STIR) grants, announced in early 2023 by the Notre Dame College of Science and College of Engineering, have been awarded to four new research projects led by multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers.
The one-year seed grants…
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Collaboration leads to discovery of how ovarian egg cells may develop
Groundbreaking science can happen where disciplines intersect, and scientists team up.
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