Thanks to the continued generosity of the Walther Cancer Foundation as well as the Charles and Daneen Stiefel Discovery Fund for Cancer Research and the Stephanie and John Williams Discovery Fund for Cancer Research, we are pleased to announce the awardees of our 2020 research and training programs.…

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Elizabeth Harper, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging that will fund the completion of her doctorate and up to four years of postdoctoral research.

The University of Notre Dame has received $172.5 million in new research funding awards for fiscal year 2020 – the second highest in its history.

  Francis J. Castellino, Kleiderer-Pezold Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Esteemed Career Award. This prestigious award is given to those who “have made significant contributions to...

A study completed at the University of Notre Dame in the laboratory of Jeff Schorey, the George G. Craig Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences, ashowed for the first time how RNA sensors drive a response in T-cells in one of a disease related to tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium Complex (MAC).

Two students from the University of Notre Dame have received fellowships through the Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics' (AD&T) Berry Family Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program.

Twenty-three students and faculty have been announced as awardees of the Naughton Fellowships for 2020.

A new study from the University of Notre Dame shows drugs used to treat high cholesterol could interfere with the way breast cancer cells adapt to the microenvironment in the brain, preventing the cancer from taking hold.

 Fluorescence imaging has been a boon to research and medicine because of its ability to examine affected areas noninvasively. But the dyes used for these purposes have their disadvantages, and as resolution needs have grown stronger, the stakes for accuracy have increased exponentially.  …

The hero in Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man,” her second sweeping political science fiction after “Frankenstein,” is left alone in Rome, in a post-apocalyptic world. A global plague apparently took the lives of everyone else, yet he discerns a duty to forge ahead, no matter what. Published in…

Mary E. Galvin, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, addressed the issue of inequality with the students, faculty, and staff of the college: Like many of you, I am deeply saddened by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and by this...

The purpose of the project, “Dissipative non-equilibrium supramolecular hydrogels using fuels,” is to create a new material paradigm at the intersection of supramolecular chemistry and soft materials. He and his team will be studying materials and systems that exhibit transient states and enable properties of material formation in the presence of a fuel...

2020 Warren Newsletter Originally published by Warren Family Center at "drugdiscovery.nd.edu":https://drugdiscovery.nd.edu/news/spring-2020-the-warren-roundup/…

Men with penile squamous cell cancer could benefit from a combined approach to their cancer therapy, because targeted chemotherapy or immunotherapy alone – which may work for other kinds of cancers – is not effective for this cancer, according to a study by University of Notre Dame researchers and collaborators.

Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey, the Morris Pollard Professor and Chair…

Steven Corcelli, Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and Faculty Development, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Thomas P. Madden Award. This award honors the faculty member who contributed the most to the teaching of first-year students.

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing are recording details about the coronavirus vaccine candidates currently in development as well as the progress of those candidates via a new interactive online tool.

Seniors in the College of Science and faculty were recently honored with awards for the 2019-20 academic year.  …

The University of Notre Dame will welcome students back to campus for the 2020-21 fall semester the week of Aug. 10, two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, and will forgo fall break in October and end the semester before Thanksgiving.