News Archive
Center researchers receive $6 million in NIH Stimulus Funds
June 5, 2009 - Dan Portnoy, CEND Associate Director, and two other Center researchers have been awarded more than $6 million in grants from the NIH, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The research will focus on host defenses against intracellular pathogens, and the basic mechanics of the innate immune response.
Vance receives Burroughs Wellcome award
May 14, 2009 - 
Russell Vance, CEND investigator and assistant professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, was granted the 2009 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The award honors Vance's studies of the innate immune system's cytosolic immunosurveillance pathways, which are involved in sensing bacterial pathogens.
Winner of "Targeting Neglected Diseases" Competition Announced
December 12, 2008 - Edgar deu Sandoval, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, submits winning target for CEND's inaugural contest: P. falciparum dipeptidyl peptidase - LINK
Berkeley Center for Neglected Diseases Receives $7 Million Pledge
December 12, 2008 - New program, funded by long time campus support Henry Wheeler, launches with an innovative drug discovery competition
Watch the event online - WEBCAST
Infectious Diseases Supergroup Launches
August 2008 - This semester CEND is sponsoring a supergroup focused on the molecular basis of infectious diseases. The group holds monthly, multi-lab meetings each featuring two talks on current research efforts by students, postdocs, and faculty members. The aim of the supergroup is to stimulate cross-lab and interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration. The meetings will also provide a forum for identifying needs for shared resources and equipment. The inaugural gathering is scheduled for Friday, August 29th at noon in the Calvin Hall seminar room. The first speakers will be Dan Portnoy and Stavroula Hatzios from the Bertozzi Lab.
CEND Summer Research Grants
July 2008 - This summer, CEND is providing travel grants for two researchers participating in research and training activities in South Africa. Lisa Prach, a UC Berkeley graduate student in the lab of Tom Alber, will be traveling to Stellenbosch University to work in the lab of collaborator Rob Warren. The project will focus on analyzing lipids from several multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains of tuberculosis. Makerere University Professor Ddembe Williams also will be traveling to South Africa, to participate in a summer institute led in part by UC Berkeley Professor Wayne Getz, co-founder and trustee of the South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA). Both Williams and Getz are engaged in research modeling the dynamics of infectious disease transmission.
IIT-Kharagpur Program launches
May 2008 - Three students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur campus will conduct mentored research this summer at UC Berkeley, as part of a new CEND program to promote international partnerships with researchers in developing countries. The students will be working in the labs of CEND investigators Kimmen Sjolander and Jennifer Doudna.
CEND launches as part of the UC Berkeley Alliance for Global Health
May 2008 - The Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases was inaugurated on Wednesday May 14th 2008, at the launch of the UC Berkeley Alliance for Global Health. CEND serves as the life sciences, engineering, and science policy arm of the Alliance, along with the Center for Global Public Health (which coordinates international health research within the School of Public Health). The event featured a keynote address by Peter Kim, President of Merck Research Labs, and Don Francis, Executive Director of Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases. For more details, visit UCB NewsCenter.
Graduate student Lisa Prach used her 2008 Summer Research Grant to study drug resistant TB in South Africa