Daniel Dombeck Receives CBC Research Award

EVANSTON, Ill--New faculty member Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D., was selected as one of four outstanding researchers to receive a Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) Junior Investigator Award this year. The $500,000 award is given to researchers that have accepted faculty positions at CBC institutions. Dombeck joins the Neurobiology and Physiology department on the Evanston campus in February of 2011. Dombeck has developed an experimental system to perform cellular and subcellular resolution imaging and manipulation of neuronal population activity in mice navigating in virtual reality environments.

The CBC is supported by the The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. It aims to stimulate collaborative research and training in the field of Systems Biology among scientists at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois in Chicago. The Junior Investigator Awards were inaugurated this year. CBC Provosts were invited to select and nominate candidates with demonstrated records of excellence who are entering their first faculty positions as tenure-track assistant professors. The CBC's Recruitment Resources Board is charged with evaluating nominees and recommending awards. Awards are finalized once the faculty member arrives on campus, and up to two awards are available to each university.

Dombeck received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. He completed postdoctoral research in applied physics in the laboratory of Dr. Watt Webb at Cornell and at the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Molecular Biology in the research group of Dr. David Tank at Princeton.

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