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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 17
JANUARY 2017
Grants and Opportunitiesi i
NCI Research Specialist
(Laboratory-based Scientist) Award (R50)
Objective: The Research Specialist Award is de-
signed to encourage the development of stable
research career opportunities for exceptional
scientists who want to continue to pursue research
within the context of an existing NCI-funded basic,
translational, clinical, or population science cancer
research program, but not serve as independent
investigators. This award is intended to provide
salary support and sufficient autonomy so that
individuals are not solely dependent on NCI grants
held by others for career continuity.
Deadline: February 2, 2017
Program dates: June 5–9, 2017
Website:
files/PAR-17-049.html
Exosomes: From Biogenesis and Secretion
to the Early Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s
Disease (R01)
Objective: This funding opportunity announce-
ment encourages collaborative approaches de-
signed to identify and characterize the regulation
of molecular machines that are responsible for
exosome biogenesis and the secretion of exosomal
cargo molecules in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Deadline: February 3, 2017
Website:
files/RFA-AG-17-051.html
NumbersBy the
Over 2,000 BPS members have joined one or more of the Society’s subgroups, which bring together
researchers with common research interests.
From the BPS Blog
Using Biophysics to
Understand Diabetes
November was National Diabetes Month. To recog-
nize this awareness month, Biophysical Society member
Roger Cooke, University of California, San Francisco,
wrote for the BPS blog about his biophysics research
related to diabetes. .
com/2016/11/04/using-biophysics-to-understand-diabe-
tes/.
Members in the News
Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Centre
for Cellular & Molecular Biology,
and Society member since 1984,
was awarded the TWAS Prize in
Biology.
Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of
Texas Health Science Center, and
Society member since 1996, was
named an inaugural McGovern
Scholar.
J. Andrew McCammon, Univer-
sity of California, San Diego, and
Society member since 1979, was
awarded the 2016-17 Joseph O.
Hirschfelder Prize in Theoreti-
cal Chemistry by the Theoretical
Chemistry Institute at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.