CBSA recognizes 2017 Boettcher Investigators

Wednesday June 14, 2017 0 comments Tags: Denver, CBSA, April Giles, Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award, Katie Kramer

DENVER -- The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) on Tuesday commended the newest class of Boettcher Investigators and expressed its gratitude to the Boettcher Foundation for its continued support of scientific innovation in Colorado.

“The Boettcher Investigators program reflects the best of Colorado,” said April Giles, CBSA’s president and CEO. “We nurture talent. We grow careers. We believe in the promise of scientific research and the promise it offers to build better lives.

“The Boettcher Foundation and the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards advance the work of talented scientists in our state.”

The Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards support promising, early-career scientific researchers, allowing them to advance their independent research and compete for major federal and private awards in the future.

Nine biomedical researchers at Colorado’s top institutions were selected to receive funding from the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards program. Recipients are awarded $235,000 in grant funding to sustain three years of biomedical research. They also receive the title of Boettcher Investigator.

“This year’s award recipients are doing important work that has the potential to significantly improve human health,” said Katie Kramer, Boettcher Foundation CEO.

“The Boettcher Foundation is proud to help propel this research forward because Colorado can only be a leader in scientific innovation if its most dynamic scientific minds are supported at early stages in their work.”

Now in its eighth year, the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards honor the commitments that the Webb and Waring families made to scientific research and public service. Including the class of 2017, 54 Boettcher Investigators at the state’s leading academic and research institutions have received funding through the Webb-Waring program.

The 2017 Class of Boettcher Investigators and their research topics are:

Colorado School of Mines

• Andrew Petruska, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Magnetic manipulation for medical applications

Colorado State University

• Erin Osborne Nishimura, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Gene expression, chromatin and developmental biology
• Kelly S. Santangelo, DVM, Ph.D., Diplomate ACVP, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathology – Prevention and therapy of post-traumatic osteoarthritis

National Jewish Health

• Camille M. Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics – Statistical methods for longitudinal RNA-sequencing data

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

• Joshua C. Black, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology – Epigenetic regulation of tumor heterogeneity
• Angelo D'Alessandro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of the Metabolomics Core - School of Medicine – Systemic metabolic reprogramming in health and disease
• Kristine A. Kuhn, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology – Gut-joint lymphocyte trafficking in inflammatory bowel disease and spondyloarthritis
• Eric M. Pietras, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hematology – Hematopoietic stem cell and inflammation biology
• John A. Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery – Neurobiology of sensory-motor driven decision-making processes

For more information about the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards, visit the Boettcher Foundation website.