November 5, 2017
Three UIC researchers and CBC awardees featured in the UIC College of Pharmacy Annual Report 2017
Funding support from the CBC has been recognized and acknowledged in the UIC College of Pharmacy Annual Report 2017. UIC scientists whose research has been supported by the CBC are featured in the report: Michael Federle, Greg Thatcher and Alexander Mankin. They are recipients of multiple CBC Awards (see below) and were invited speakers at CBC Annual Symposia: Mankin in 2009, Federle in 2015 and Thatcher will speak at the upcoming 15th CBC Annual Symposium on November 17, 2017. Federle was also an invited speaker at the CBC Scholars “Loop Connections” Seminar (2012). In addition to being a prolific researcher, Thatcher has also been involved in several start-up companies, including TTC Oncology with Debra Tonetti. Tonetti has received several CBC awards and served as a reviewer for the CBC Catalyst program. Congratulations to these outstanding UIC scientists!
Michael Federle, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Center Affiliate
Center for Biomolecular Sciences
College of Pharmacy
University of Illinois at Chicago
CBC Awards:
Catalyst Award (2013):
PIs: Michael J. Federle (UIC) and Matthew Tirrell (UChicago) for the project:
▸ Immunotherapy-Mediated Interference of Bacterial Quorum Sensing
HTS Awards (2013):
PI: Michael Federle (UIC)
▸ Signal Jamming of Bacterial Communication: an HTS approach
HTS Award (2015):
PIs: Michael Federle and Tiara Perez-Morales (UIC)
▸ Reversing Antibiotic Resistance with Compounds that Potentiate Antimicrobial Drugs
Postdoctoral Research Award (2014, renewed in 2015):
PIs: Laura Cook and Michael Federle (UIC) for the project:
▸ RNASeq analysis of the transcriptome of streptococci colonizing the vaginal tract
▸ Renewal
CBC events:
CBC Scholars “Loop Connections” Seminar (2012):
▸ CRISPR Loci and Signal Interference in Bacteria
Michael Federle – Invited speaker
13th Annual CBC Symposium (2015):
▸ The Unseen Majority: Microbes in Health and Disease
Michael Federle – Invited speaker
Gregory Thatcher, PhD
Professor
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Founding Director
UICentre
College of Pharmacy
University of Illinois at Chicago
CBC Awards:
HTS Award (2015):
PIs: Mary Jo LaDu, Gregory Thatcher and Manel Ben Aissa (UIC)
▸ Screening for a Tissue-specific ABCA1 Agonists to Target Lipidation of apoE4 in the CNS as an Effective and Tolerated Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease
HTS Award (2015):
PIs: Debra Tonetti, Gregory Thatcher, Jason Hickok and Lauren Gutgesell (UIC)
▸ Selective Inhibition of Tamoxifen-resistant Breast Cancer Cell Growth by Single Agents and in Combination
Catalyst Award (2009):
PIs: Lonnie Shea (NU) and Deborah Tonetti (UIC) for the project:
▸ High throughput signaling pathway analysis during cellular organization into structures
CBC events:
15th Annual CBC Symposium (2017):
▸ Small Molecule Discovery
Gregory Thatcher – Invited speaker
▸ CBC Science Day (2011):
Debra Tonetti – Invited speaker
CBC Boards:
▸ Catalyst Review Board (2012-2015):
Debra Tonetti – Member
Alexander Mankin, PhD
Professor and Director
Center for Biomolecular Sciences
Professor
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
College of Pharmacy
University of Illinois at Chicago
CBC Awards:
Spark Award (2009):
PIs: Erik Sontheimer (NU), Alexander Mankin (UIC) and Jonathan Staley (UChicago) for the project:
▸ Noncoding RNA Structure, Function, and Evolution
CBC events:
7th Annual CBC Symposium (2009):
▸ The Biology of Non-Coding RNAs: Old Molecules, New Actions
Alexander Mankin – Invited speaker
Source:
▸ UIC College of Pharmacy Annual Report 2017, published on Oct 2, 2017.