After hearing from Nobel laureate Tom Cech about the importance of bioscience research and teaching, the University of Colorado regents Monday unanimously approved a new Biofrontiers Institute that will give the discipline a larger presence on the Boulder campus.
The institute is an expansion of the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, which began at CU in 2003 and is now led by Cech.
“To call it an initiative anymore seems like it’s behind the times. We have initiated,” said Cech, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry while at CU in 1989. Cech’s prize-winning scientific work demonstrated that RNA in living cells not only directs heredity but can also act as a catalyst.
The Biofrontiers Institute will focus on educating the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists, beginning with its recently launched Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology doctoral program.
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