Congratulations to Yamuna Krishnan and Raymond Moellering for receiving Chicago Biomedical Consortium Catalyst Awards! These awards support high-risk/high-reward collaborative projects in translational research among CBC members of different institutions. In "In Situ Lysosomal Ion Imaging as a Sensitive Diagnostic for Lysosomal Disorders," Krishnan will collaborate with Dimitri Krainc of Northwestern University to develop a method for measuring lysosomal function using cells easily obtainable through blood draws. Moellering will work with Sarki Abdulkadir, also of Northwestern, to use material from prostate cancer organoids to develop probes for visualizing an enzyme elevated in aggressive cancers, in "Defining Prostate Tumor Malignancy with Activity-Dependent PET Probes."
Yamuna Krishnan and Raymond Moellering Receive CBC Catalyst Awards
February 22, 2018