Santiago Schnell, D.Phil., the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, has announced several faculty awards, including two new awards in research science and advising. Father James L. Shilts, C.S.C./Doris and Gene Leonard Teaching Award This award,…

The 2023 …

One undergraduate and three graduate students in the College of Science have received National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowships that will help fund their graduate studies. …

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have identified how a gene called Pygo2 makes some prostate cancers resistant to treatment with immunotherapy. 

More than two dozen University of Notre Dame students have been named National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows, the most since 2016.

Arnaldo Serrano, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Katharine White, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, have been selected as recipients of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The award is given to recognize outstanding research and its integration with education,...

This spring, students from South Bend area high schools who took part in the Harper Cancer Research Institute's Research Cures Cancer Corps (RC3) program shared their research at both regional and state science fairs—and came home with a long list of awards. Learn more

A team of scientists at the University of Notre Dame has discovered the mechanisms by which the fungal pathogen Candida albicans forms infections on urinary catheters.

The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announced today…

Third-grader Skylar Sevison eagerly squished her hand into a tin of purple fingerpaint in Jordan Hall of Science, then stamped it onto a poster with other colorful handprints representing …

Warren Center affiliate Professor Meenal Datta's new study shows blood pressure drug boosts the effectiveness of immunotherapy for brain cancer and reduces deadly side effect can be found here …

Champion for eliminating tuberculosis   The bacteria that cause tuberculosis are incredibly well-adapted to humans,…

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have devised a low-cost filter that can rapidly isolate and trap biomarkers for cancer with a 99% success rate.

Vote for Ana Flores-Mireles's research in STAT Madness 2023!

This lab is the perfect fit according to McGraw, who wanted to fund Alzheimer’s-specific research in honor of Summitt, the award’s namesake and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coach who died from early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2016. 

Laurie Littlepage, Campbell Family Associate Professor of Cancer Research, has been awarded a 2022 METAvivor Translational Research Award. METAvivor is a non-profit organization that funds research applicable to stage IV metastatic breast cancer, and for 2022, they have awarded 27 grants totaling $5.75 million.

An international collaboration of scientists, including Santiago Schnell, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, developed a new markup language to improve the way experiments can be reproduced in the biomedical sciences, especially within fields that study how enzymes speed up chemical reactions.

The first annual ND/Purdue University Graduate Symposium in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology was held from October 28-29, 2022 at the Morris Inn at the University of Notre Dame. This was a two-day student-organized symposium that will rotate annually between participating schools. The graduate…

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Ana Flores Mireles was awarded funding from Open Philanthropy for further development of a new type of urinary catheter that may reduce deaths from catheter-induced urinary tract infections.

Five faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as lifetime fellows. The fellows include Patricia A. Champion, Jon P. Camden, Yih-Fang Huang, Ahsan Kareem and Rebecca Surman. All are being recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements...

Though the married couple's search began during the Covid-19 pandemic, both researchers landed jobs as postdocs in the same laboratory

Madeline Glennon, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association.