Bob Sherwood, research support specialist with the BRC Proteomics and Metabolomics facility, was recognized with the Cornell President's Award for Employee Excellence in the "Mission-Possible" category.  The Mission-Possible Award recognizes an employee whose work demonstrates excellence in supporting the university’s core mission of learning, discovery, engagement. This staff member will exemplify going above and beyond to complete a mission. Bob was recognized for his tireless work analyzing samples during the very early days of the pandemic in collaboration with a Stanford research group.  The work helped to identify markers correlated with mild versus severe disease during the initial shutdown when nearly all research activity on campus was suspended.

Ascribe Biosciences, housed in the McGovern Center Incubator and recipient of a current CAT award wins $500k prize in Grow-NY competition.

Breeding Insight and VitisGen collaborate to create a grape genomics database to enhance breeding efforts

Four CAT Grants Awarded August 2021

DeLisa Named to the Life Sciences Power 50 list by City & State New York

Basic Optical Microscopy Explained by BRC Imaging Facility staff member Johanna Dela Cruz

Alumni B. Franklin Pugh ’83, and recently hired Cornell faculty member (Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences / Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine), presents his research on regulation of gene expression.

In business intelligence systems class (INFO 4555), students have the opportunity to analyze real business data from Cornell units for their end-of-semester project. This collaboration benefits both the students and the participating units.

While some COVID-19 patients can get very sick, others have barely any symptoms at all. A collaborative study between scientists at Stanford University and the Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility at the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology found that mildly and severely ill patients had different antibody signatures.

A brief descriptions of accomplishments for Monica Franciscus, Lynn Johnson, Zack Miller, Yaw Nti-Addae (5 years of service); Sara Miller, Jennifer Mosher, Elodie Smith (10 years); John Flaherty, Xiaoyun Wang (15 years); Cindy Wang (20 years); James VanEe (25 years).