🔉CZ Biohub Chicago is thrilled to announce its first cohort of Investigators, 48 innovative scientists and engineers hailing from our three partner universities, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of Chicago. This funding will enable Investigators to perform high-risk, high-reward research on topics related to instrumented tissues, inflammation, and the functions of the immune system. Meet the inaugural class of #CZBiohubCHI Investigators! University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Indrani Bagchi, Ph.D., Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D, Qian Chen, Ph.D., Martha Gillette, Ph.D., Bumsoo Han, Ph.D., Amy Wagoner Johnson, Ph.D., Auinash Kalsotra, Ph.D., Hyunjoon Kong, Ph.D., Catherine Murphy, Ph.D., M. Taher Saif, Ph.D., Mei Shen, Ph.D., Shannon Sirk, Ph.D., Bradley Sutton, Ph.D., Jonathan Sweedler, Ph.D., Yurii Vlasov, Ph.D., Ayelet Ziv-Gal, Ph.D. Northwestern University Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., Jaehyuk Choi, M.D., Ph.D., Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Igor Efimov, Ph.D., Horacio Espinosa, Ph.D., Dominic Fullenkamp, M.D., Ph.D., Yogesh Goyal, Ph.D., Neil Kelleher, Ph.D., John Kessler, M.D., Huiping Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., Elizabeth McNally, M.D, Ph.D., Chian-Yu Peng, Ph.D., Arthur Prindle, Ph.D., Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D., Lisa Volpatti, Ph.D. University of Chicago Luis Barreiro, Ph.D., Marcus Clark, M.D., Ph.D., Bryan Dickinson, Ph.D., Aaron Esser-Kahn, Ph.D., Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Aly Khan, Ph.D., Yang Li, Ph.D., Peter Mauer, Ph.D., Alex Pearson, M.D., Ph.D., Samantha Riesenfeld, Ph.D., Benjamin Shogan, M.D., Allison Squires, Ph.D., Melody Swartz, Ph.D., Savas Tay, Ph.D., Vincenzo Vitelli, Ph.D., Sihong Wang, Ph.D.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Research Services
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Accelerating science and developing new technologies to cure, prevent, or manage all disease by the end of the century.
About us
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network is a group of nonprofit research institutes that bring together scientists, engineers, and physicians with the goal of pursuing grand scientific challenges on 10- to 15-year time horizons. The CZ Biohub Network focuses on understanding underlying mechanisms of disease and developing new technologies that will lead to actionable diagnostics and effective therapies. CZ Biohub San Francisco — which was the inaugural Biohub and launched in 2016 — works on elucidating dynamic cell systems across scales in health and disease, joining forces with the Bay Area’s leading academic institutions — Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco — to do bold, visionary science that can’t be done elsewhere. CZ Biohub Chicago, which launched in 2023, focuses on engineering technologies to make precise, molecular-level measurements of biological processes within human tissues, with an ultimate goal of understanding and treating the inflammatory states that underlie many diseases. It catalyzes collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. CZ Biohub New York, which launched in 2023, brings together Columbia University, The Rockefeller University, and Yale University to bioengineer immune cells to sense and record signals of disease and adapt these cells to spot diseases such as lethal cancers and Alzheimer’s in their earliest stages, long before they are usually diagnosed.
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http://www.czbiohub.org
External link for Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Research, Biophysics, Cell Atlas, CRISPR, Genetics, Genomics, Infectious Disease, inflammation, machine learning, metagenomics, software engineering, metabolomics, microscopy, data science, and AI
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499 Illinois St.
San Francisco, California 94158, US
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400 N Aberdeen St
Chicago, Illinois 60642, US
Employees at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Updates
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The rapid development of spatial omics technologies is enhancing our understanding of tissue inflammation at the molecular level. However, these technologies usually require fixed, dead tissue samples, while a comprehensive understanding of inflammation needs continuous monitoring of live tissues. Meet #CZBiohubChi scientists Claire Liu & Daniel Wang. Claire obtained her Ph.D. from Northwestern University under the supervision of Prof. John Rogers and joined Biohub Chicago in Aug. 2023. Daniel obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and joined Biohub Chicago as its first Group Leader in Dec. 2023. Together they are developing various tissue sampling platforms to enable spatiotemporal omics, which could significantly improve our understanding of inflammatory diseases and lead to new treatments. Learn more about CZ Biohub Chicago! Visit https://lnkd.in/exs-EMut
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A big mystery of the #COVID pandemic was why some kids got severely ill after infection with SARS-CoV-2, a complication dubbed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Now a team of researchers co-led by Aaron Bodansky and Mark Anderson of University of California, San Francisco and Joe DeRisi, president of #CZBiohubSF, working with Boston Children's Hospital and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - ALSAC, has uncovered a mechanism that gives rise to this inflammatory syndrome. In a case of molecular mimicry, they found that a sequence similarity between a region of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein and SNX8, a protein found in host cells, induces autoantibodies and cross-reactive T cells. Their findings, which have implications for other #autoimmune diseases, were published today in Nature. Learn more ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/exMZf4EX (pictured: Aaron Bodansky, left, and Joe DeRisi)
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Meet Suji Choi, a Biohub Chicago Fellow and expert in engineered cardiac tissue and bioelectronics. She obtained her Ph.D. from Seoul National University under the guidance of Prof. Dae-Hyoeng Kim, and completed her postdoctoral research at Harvard University in Prof. Kit Parker's lab, where she specialized in cardiac disease and engineered tissue. Her work will help #CZBiohubChi achieve its aim of integrating advanced instrumentation into cardiac tissue to monitor cardiac tissue function and disease progression in real time. Learn more about CZ Biohub Chicago! Visit czbiohub.org/chi.
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In the latest Nexus, the Biohub Network newsletter, learn about: ⚡A malaria intervention study in Nature Medicine led by #CZBiohubSF Investigators Jade Benjamin-Chung & Michelle Hsiang ⚡#CZBiohubNY Investigator John Tsang‘s immune health metric, with potential for early disease detection ⚡Stephen Quake’s mini-review of The Master Builder by Alfonso Martinez Arias, a book on the new science of the cell Read more ▶️ https://lnkd.in/geB_ECpR
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This week CZ Biohub Chicago President Shana Kelley & the rest of the Biohub team were excited to host Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-CEO Priscilla Chan to show off the progress made in the last year at #CZBiohubCHI!
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Hear from Shana Kelley, president of the #CZBiohubCHI, starting around the 43-minute mark! She discusses her approach to biosensors and her journey from chemistry to immunology.
📢 Check out our latest episode! Dr. Shana Kelley from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network talks about developing reagentless #biosensors and commercializing technology! Listen now: bit.ly/3LqnX0A
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You’re invited! #CZBiohubSF will hold its 3rd Physics of Life Symposium on Sept. 25, with keynote by M. Lisa Manning, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. Join us in building a community of physical biologists! Learn more & register ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gd5wVXjQ #science #ScienceSymposium #biology #PhysicsofLife #PhysicalBiology
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For the first time, members of the CZ Biohub Network convened at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's HQ Week, with #CZBiohubSF, #CZBiohubCHI, #CZBiohubNY all represented! It was great to meet and celebrate in person, and to share ideas about the bold, important science being done across our institutes!
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Stay abreast of news and publications from across the CZ Biohub institutes, and subscribe to Nexus, the monthly newsletter of the CZ Biohub Network. Highlights from the latest issue: 📸 how #CZImagingInstitute scientists are accelerating contributions to the cryoET Data Portal 🧑💼 meet the new Computational Biology head @ #CZBiohubSF 💡 a “living bioelectronics” prototype from U. Chicago Read more ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/e6QK69pw
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