Over 50 faculty members from the cancer research Center, led by Director Michelle Le Beau, Ph.D., met in late july for a full day Retreat downtown. Dr. Le Beau, other senio cancer leaders, and the Division have thought deeply about ways to revitalize the Cancer Center, and the Retreat was meant to refine the ideas into action plans. I believe this process serves us well as a model for how the Aims process can be extended into focused strategic planning in specific areas of interest. I look forward to working with Dr. Le Beau and the rest of the division's cancer leadership in achieving the aspirations crystallized by the CRC Retreat.

I am also pleased to report two important milestones in relation to the New Research Building. The University has acquired five of the six properties on Site A -our preferred building site immediately west of and adjacent to the Biological Sciences Learning Center -and the final property is under contract. Secondly, the University of Trustees have approved Zimmer Gunsul Frasca as the architectural design firm for the NRB. ZGF has significant experience in designing biomedical research buildings; examples include the Hatfield Clinical Research Center at NIH, the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and the Bunting-Blaustein Buiilding at Johns Hopkins.

We have also kept up the pace in leadership recruitment. Dr. S. Murray Sherman has joined us as Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, and T. Conrad Giliam will soon become the new Chair of the Department of Human Genetics. Internally, Dr. Olaf Schneewind has been appointed Chair of our new Department of Microbiology, Dr. Geoffrey Greene has assumed leadership of the Committee on Cancer Biology, and Dr. Arthur Haney has been named Chair of the University of Chicago Practice Plan Executive Committee.

These and other events have kept our momentum through the summer and we look to more of such in the next quarter.

Shedding "Light" on Cancer Immunotherapy
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Family Medicine
The Department of Family Medicine is a relatively new member of the Divisional community, created in 2000 and beginning full operation in 2002 with the appointment of Bernard Ewigman, M.D., as Professor and Chairman...

Creation of the Department of Microbiology
On June 29, 2004, the Division of the Biological Sciences celebrated the reemergence of the Department of Microbiology and the appointment of Dr. Olaf Schneewind as Chairman with a reception held in the Duchossois Center...

Aims Implementation Updates
The New Research Building (NRB)
Major milestones have been reached during the last quarter. The preferred site for the NRB -immediately west of and adjacent to the Biological Sciences Leanring Center- has been acquired. Five of the 6 private properties on the site have been acquired outright...

EDUCATION
The Llewellyn John & Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Although from 1938 to 1952 his name was a mystery to the University community, today the name Quantrell is synonymous with excellence in undergraduate teaching....

DEVELOPMENT
$400 Million Raised for Science and Medicine
With the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life campaign has reached the $400 million mark and is on pace to meet a goal of $550 million by December 2006...

DISCOVERIES
The Division of the Biological Sciences is proud to announce the appointment of S. Murray Sherman, Ph.D., as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, effective July 1, 2004...

FOREFRONT: of Sleep Research
The Division of the Biological Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Arthur Haney, M.D., as Chair of the University of Chicago Practice Plan Executive Committee...

In Memoriam
H.G. WILLIAMS ASHMAN, PH.D.
An internationally recognized authority on the biochemistry, biosynthesis, regulation and molecular mode of action of sex hormones and their roles in reproduction and in cancer, Howard Guy Williams-Ashman, PhD...

ACCOLADES
Recent Awards and Grants Information for Biological Sciences Division Faculty

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Recent Recruitemnts and Appointments of Biological Sciences Division Faculty

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