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• Professor Robin Dowell named a 2012 Sloan Foundation Fellow

  2010 Scientist Salary Survey Results Announced - Bioinformatics Salaries Increased

• New Book Release:  The Processes of Life by Lawrence E. Hunter
• New Consortium Purchases Roche/FLX Machine
• School of Medicine at UC Denver Awarded $2.5 Million to train in Biomedical Informatics
  

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The Scientist's Life Science Salary Survey 2010 -- Results Announced

This year's Salary Survey saw drops in salaries across the board with almost every speciality suffering a setback, some with dips as large as $20,000 (ecology) and $28,000 (virology). However, a few select fields, namely bioinformatics, biophysics, biotechnology, and neuroscience, bucked the trend and actually posted salary increases this year. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1942913/the_scientists_life_science_salary_survey_2010__results_announced/

New Book Release

The Processes of Life:  An Introduction to Molecular Biology

Lawrence E. Hunter

To view the book visit:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11776

New Consortium For Comparative Genomics Purchases Roche/FLX machine
The Consortium for Comparative Genomics within the Computation Bioscience Program of the University of Colorado Medical School has become a reality. Consortium Director Dr. David Pollock has identified the central objective of the consortium as being to catalyze activity in genomics and genomics-related research.

In December of 2007 a $500,000 Roche/454 FLX machine was purchased and delivered, as well as about $50K worth of auxiliary equipment. Technical training under the leadership of Christopher Korch will begin the third week of January 2008, followed by analytical/computational training during the last week of the month . First user samples are projected to process during the week of January 21, 2008.

For more information, contact David Pollock or go to:
www.EvolutionaryGenomics.com/CCG.html

CB Program Director Hunter Wins Pharmacology Department Faculty Research Excellence Prize
Dr. Hunter was recognized by the Pharmacology Department at its annual Awards Banquet for his outstanding research contributions during 2007. Dr. Hunter said that he would donate his $1,000 prize to the Computational Bioscience Program.

School of Medicine at UC Denver Awarded $2.5 Million to Train in
Biomedical Informatics
Grant from the National Library of Medicine will create nine fellowships at medical school
Denver, Nov. 27, 2006
Protein structure simulation. Data mining in genomics. A computer program designed to analyze published research findings and identify patterns and relationships. These are just a few of the exciting advancements in the field of biomedical informatics—a field that brings together computer science and medicine to advance research, improve health care, reduce medical errors, save lives and reduce costs. To assist in the development of this relatively new field in medicine, the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Library of Medicine to train nine students in its Computational Bioscience Program over the next five years.

“Essentially, this field didn’t exist until the human genome project was finished and now it’s a central part of how we make sense of genomic data,” said Lawrence Hunter, Ph.D., director of the program at the UC Denver School of Medicine and one of the founders of the field of computational bioscience. “The Computational Bioscience Program at the School of Medicine has come a long way in a short time. We began a formal program in 2004 and now we have been nationally recognized with the best programs in the world—programs at peer institutions like Harvard, Stanford and Yale.”

The UC Denver School of Medicine began offering a Ph.D. in computational bioscience in 2001 and a formal program was created in 2004 when the School’s Academic Enrichment Fund contributed $1.5 million to launch the program. Students in the program come from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds including physicians, biologists, computer scientists and engineers. Graduates leave the program with the expertise to join faculty programs in bioinformatics, medicine or computer science, or assume high-level research positions in government or industry.

The National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, awarded $75 million to 18 programs for informatics research training. For more information regarding the grant recipients, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html.

The School of Medicine faculty work to advance science and improve care in their roles as physicians, educators and scientists at University of Colorado Hospital, The Children’s Hospital, Denver Health, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and the Veterans Administration Medical Center. The School is part of the University of Colorado Denver, one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. For more information, visit [this] Computational Bioscience Program web site or the UC Denver Newsroom at http://ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom.