/biofrontiers/ en /biofrontiers/2025/07/14/leslie-leinwand-and-3-leinwand-lab-members-win-funding-obesity-drug-development <span>Leslie Leinwand and 3 Leinwand Lab members win funding for obesity drug development </span> <span><span>Kristen Bjorkman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-07-14T19:59:53-06:00" title="Monday, July 14, 2025 - 19:59">Mon, 07/14/2025 - 19:59</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/biofrontiers/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-07/Leinwand%20Lab%20translational%20funding.png?h=b69e0e0e&amp;itok=VPArpXqa" width="1200" height="800" alt="Four scientists with pills in the background and the text &quot;translational funding for early-stage therapeutics with strong commercial potential&quot;"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/20"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>"Venture Partners at CU Boulder has announced the first recipients of a new translational funding program designed to advance promising, early-stage therapeutics with strong commercial potential...Led by Distinguished Professor Leslie Leinwand (BioFrontiers Institute, CU Boulder Molecular, Cellular &amp; Developmental Biology), with PhD student Jack Gugel and postdoctoral researchers Thomas Martin and Yuxiao Tan, the team is developing an orally available obesity drug that suppresses appetite without affecting gastric emptying or causing muscle loss."</div> <script> window.location.href = `/venturepartners/2025/07/14/internal-news/cu-boulder-awards-therapeutics-funding-advance-promising-drug-development-projects`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:59:53 +0000 Kristen Bjorkman 1691 at /biofrontiers /biofrontiers/2025/06/13/debanjan-mukherjees-lab-publishes-new-work-using-digital-twins-study-stroke-risk-lvad <span>Debanjan Mukherjee's lab publishes new work using "digital twins" to study stroke risk in LVAD patients</span> <span><span>Kristen Bjorkman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-06-13T09:02:27-06:00" title="Friday, June 13, 2025 - 09:02">Fri, 06/13/2025 - 09:02</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/biofrontiers/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-06/Debanjan_Mukherjee_Lab_PC0023.png?h=79495b2a&amp;itok=3DuH2eeX" width="1200" height="800" alt="Debanjan Mukherjee and trainees looking at images of vasculature"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/20"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script> window.location.href = `/today/2025/06/11/common-heart-failure-treatment-comes-high-risk-stroke-new-discovery-could-make-it-safer`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:02:27 +0000 Kristen Bjorkman 1689 at /biofrontiers /biofrontiers/2025/06/13/ed-chuong-named-2025-cancer-research-institute-lloyd-j-old-star-cancer-immune-function <span>Ed Chuong named a 2025 Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old STAR for cancer immune function research</span> <span><span>Kristen Bjorkman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-06-13T08:57:48-06:00" title="Friday, June 13, 2025 - 08:57">Fri, 06/13/2025 - 08:57</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/biofrontiers/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/chuong.png?h=305df604&amp;itok=edpJFRCx" width="1200" height="800" alt="Ed Chuong"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/20"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>"Dr. Edward Chuong is investigating the unexpected role of transposons in shaping immune responses and potentially influencing cancer immunotherapy outcomes. Long considered genomic “junk” or inert fossils, transposons – mobile genetic elements that make up over 50% of the human genome – are now emerging as important regulators of host gene expression. Dr. Chuong’s research has revealed that transposon-derived regulatory elements have been co-opted as enhancers and transcriptional switches, playing essential roles in innate immune signaling across multiple mammalian lineages, including primates, rodents, and bats."</div> <script> window.location.href = `https://www.cancerresearch.org/cri-funded-scientists/edward-chuong-phd`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:57:48 +0000 Kristen Bjorkman 1688 at /biofrontiers /biofrontiers/2025/06/06/sammy-ramsey-discusses-why-honey-bees-are-dying-record-numbers-2025 <span>Sammy Ramsey discusses why honey bees are dying in record numbers in 2025</span> <span><span>Kristen Bjorkman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-06-06T10:33:15-06:00" title="Friday, June 6, 2025 - 10:33">Fri, 06/06/2025 - 10:33</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/biofrontiers/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-02/Screenshot%202025-02-14%20at%204.11.04%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=05fbc6e2&amp;itok=HfUsVD0z" width="1200" height="800" alt="A beekeeper with a bee frame"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/20"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/biofrontiers/taxonomy/term/352" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script> window.location.href = `/today/2025/06/06/honeybees-are-dying-record-numbers-scientist-racing-save-them`; 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