Press Release

$2 Million Grant Revamps Chemical Screening Center

A press release in the UCSC University News came out on July 12, 2021 announcing the receipt of our NIH grant. It is a High-End Instrumentation Grant (S10) in the amount of $1.9 million for upgrading our equipment. The purchases are outlined here. (screenshot from news.ucsc.edu)

“We have a lot of faculty members who are pushing the limits on understanding biological systems in a way that might lead to novel therapeutic targets…But up until this point in time, very few people on our campus have been able to then take that and make a leap from that basic biological discovery to some sort of a translational benefit. I think the new instrumentation and upgrades to this facility are going to open up a whole new arena for those faculty members.”

– John MacMillan, UCSC Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor of Chemistry

CSC says farewell to Britney

We had bittersweet lunch today to celebrate the contributions of Britney Hernandez. An MCD graduate from UCSC, Britney served as our exceptional, hardworking Junior Specialist II from January 2020 to July 2021. She maintained the CSC operations through the pandemic and performed key cytological profiling assays for the Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products and other collaborators. She leaves us for new adventures on the East Coast, and we wish her good luck at her new position of Research Specialist at Emory University. (photo from Linkedin.com)

a photo or britney