Announcements
CGE 2009 Meeting Schedule
Next Meeting: NOV 25th
Presentation given by: Thanksgiving Party
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'U' Receives $100K grant for HIV, AIDS Research-KSTP News
The University of Minnesota has received a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Grand Challenges Explorations grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Reuben Harris, associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, titled ‘Mortalizing HIV – A Novel Method to Help Eradicate AIDS.’
Harris’ project is one of 81 grants announced by the Gates Foundation in the second funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. The grants were provided to scientists in 17 countries on six continents.
To receive funding, Harris showed in a two-page application how his idea falls outside current scientific paradigms and might lead to significant advances in global health. The highly competitive initiative received more than 3,000 proposals in this round.
Travel Award
Yuen-Yi Tseng of the Bagchi lab has been awarded travel to the Northwest Genome Engineering Consortium's Workshop on Genome Engineering in Seattle, WA on Nov. 3rd, 2009. Congratulations!
Vitaliy Baranyuk of the Bachi lab has been awarded travel to the ABRCMS conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Nov. 4th, 2009. Congratulations!
Meeting Announcements
Dan Voytas is organizing a FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) meeting on “Genome Engineering: Research and Therapeutic Applications” scheduled for Sunday, June 6th thru Friday June 11th, 2010 at the Steamboat Grand Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Publications/Presentations
The Zhou lab published their paper in Blood on May 4th, 2009. "Stable gene transfer and expression in cord blood-derived CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by a hyperactive Sleeping Beauty transposon system" by authors Xingkui Xue, Xin Huang, Sonja Nodland, Lajos Mates, Linan Ma, Zsuzsanna Izsvak, Zoltan Ivics, Tucker LeBien, R. Scott McIvor, John Wagner, and Xianzheng Zhou.
Manuscript accepted by Molecular Therapy: The manuscript “Systemic correction of storage disease in MPS I NOD/SCID mice using the Sleeping Beauty transposon system” by authors Elena Aronovich, Jason Bell, Shaukat Khan, Lalitha Belur, Roland Gunther, Brenda Koniar, Patricia Schachern, Josh Parker, Cathy Carlson, Chester Whitley, R. Scott McIvor, Pankaj Gupta and Perry Hackett.
Perry Hackett gave a presentation at the WORLD Symposium 2009 titled “Gene Therapy of MPS I Mice using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System.