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News - 2006 / 2007
Winter 2007 News
Luciano Marraffini awarded Harper
Fellowship
for Fall 2006-Winter 2007
| Luciano Marraffini received a Harper
Fellowship for his work in Dr. Olaf Schneewind's laboratory on the
mechanism by which sortase enzymes target proteins to the surface of
Gram-positive bacteria.
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Autumn 2006 News
AAAS Elects Three Professors as Fellows
Vaccine
may help treat the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus
| Olaf Schneewind, Professor and Cahir of
Microbiology and Professor in the Biological Sciences Collegiate
Division, was quoted in a Tuesday, October 31 Reuter's news wire story
about a newly developed vaccine that may help treat the bacteria
Staphylococcis aureus. The bacteria cause a range of potentially fatal
infections and have become resistant to many antibiotics. "One by one,
this organism has learned how to evade nearly all of our current
antibiotics. So, generating protective immunity against invasive S.
aureus has become an important goal," said Schneewind, who led the
government-funded study to develop the vaccine. (The
University of Chicago Chronicle, November 16, 2006)
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Summer 2006 News
Building the Future of Science and
Medicine
| Let's hope it's a leading economic
indicator. It
is
certainly a sign of momentum and enthusiasm. During the first
four months
of 2006, families made four eight-figure gifts to science and medicine
at Chicago,
amounting to
more than $100 million. Gary C. Comer, founder of Land's End, and his
wife,
Francie, paved the way with a $42 million gift on January 24 to create
the Comer Center
for Children and Specialty Care, a four-story, 122,500 square-foot
facility
adjoining the recently opened Comer's Children
Hospital at
the University
of Chicago.
Two weeks later, the Wall Street Journal broke the news of Gwen and
Jules
Knapp's $25 million gift for construction of the Gwen and Jules Knapp Center
for Biomedical
Diversity. After a few quiet weeks, on April 26, the
University
announced that Ellen and Melvin Gordon's gift of $25 million would name
the
University's largest science building, the 400,000 square-foot Ellen
and Melvin
Gordon Center for Integrative
Science. Soon after the Gordon gift, a fourth donation was
announced: $10
million from the Duchossis family for cancer research. The
headlines
generated by these extraordinary gifts tell only part of the story of
philanthropy for Chicago's
medical and scientific enterprises. More
than 15,000 donors have joined together to sweep past $550 million, the
goal
set for Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life. With 23 months left to
go, the
Biological Sciences Division and the Hospitals aspire to reach a new
goal of
$700 million by June 2008. (Spark Discovery, Illuminate
Life). |
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