“Rabbitts provides one-on-one training for students and other new users of the center’s facilities. Lokey said the focus on training sets the UCSC center apart from other screening centers.
“It’s valuable experience for the students, and the symposium will give them an opportunity to showcase what they’ve been doing,” he said.”
Full article: https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/csc-symposium.html
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