Biophysical Society Bulletin | December 2022

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Shixin Liu , The Rockefeller University and Society member since 2005, won a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.

Shixin Liu (Credit: Vilcek Foundation/ Peter Hurley Photography)

Grants & Opportunities National Institutes of Health Grant: Development of Highly Innovative Tools and Technology for Analysis of Single Cells (Small Business Innovation Research; R34/ R44 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This grant seeks to develop and validate next-generation single cell analysis technologies and tools to foster com mercialization of innovative technologies for their broad use in biomedical research. The novel single cell analysis technologies will aid in obtaining a fine-grained and dy namic view of heterogeneous cellular states and inter cellular interactions, thereby providing new mechanistic insight into biological processes in health and disease. Deadline: January 5, 2023 Website: https:/grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA 20-047.html

National Institutes of Health Grant: Program to Assess the Rigor and Reproducibility of Extracellular Vesi cle-Derived Analytes for Cancer Detection (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) This grant seeks research projects that focus on inno vative research in the isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their cargo for discovery of predictive biomarkers for risk assessment, detection, diagnosis, and prognosis of early cancer. This grant will promote rigor and reproducibility research in both the isolation of EVs as well as the computational analysis of the cargo carried in these vesicles. Deadline: February 5, 2023 Website: https:/grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/ PAR-20-053.html

Student Spotlight

Kate Huffer National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Johns Hopkins Graduate Partnerships Program National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology and Biophysics Program, Johns Hopkins University What skill have you learned in your studies that you find useful in other aspects of your life? I’ve learned to get curious instead of being frustrated when confronted with evidence that reality doesn’t work the way I thought it would. Inmany cases, holding onto previous ideas would be easier, but it would also prevent me from iden tifying which questions to ask next in order to explore the full picture. I’ve found that in both science and in life, digging into the unexpected yields richness and nuance and is ultimately more satisfying than pre-assumed conclusions.

Kate Huffer

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