News from The NSF QuBBE QLCI
Welcome 5/30/2023
Welcome to Dr. Kamran Mobarhan, who is joining QuBBE as the Director of Business Management and Strategic Initiatives for the NSF QuBBE Quantum Leap Challenge Institute.
In the news... 5/18/2023
Work from the Mazziotti group looking at quantum dynamics in biology featured on CBS news.
QuBBE Summer Researcher Launches 5/4/2023
Congratulations to QuBBE summer researcher Mya Nash on launching her graduate career at UChicago.
CZI BioHub Chicago 3/2/2023
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative is launching a new $275M BioHub in Chicago to address immunity and inflammation with quantum sensing as a key technological pillar.
White House Summit 12/2/2022
Greg Engel, Valerie Goss, and Peter Maurer presented at the National Quantum Initiative Center Summit at the White House to focus on building the country's capabilities and workforce in Quantum Science and Engineering.
Congratulations 4/29/2022
Congratulations to Bernadette Miao, an undergraduate with the Tian Group, who has been selected as a UChicago Student Marshal -- the highest undergraduate distinction at the University.
Congratulations 4/20/2022
Congratulations to Bernadette Miao, an undergraduate student working on subcellular biological modulation with the Tian Group, who has been selected for the Goldwater Scholarship.
German Academy of Sciences 4/2/2022
Congratulations to Laura Gagliardi, who was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
NDSEG Fellowship 4/5/2022
Congratulations to Caitlin Bellora who was selected for a DOD NDSEG Fellowship.
NSF Fellowships 4/1/2022
Congratulations to Caitlin Bellora, Olivia Wedig, and Katelyn Feuling who were selected for NSF GRFP Fellowships.
Service Award 1/15/2022
Congratulations to Julian Solway, who won the 2021 University of Chicago Department of Medicine Distinguished Service Award
PQE Conference 1/13/2022
Peter Maurer is presenting a talk on the NSF QuBBE QLCI at PQE 2022 in Snowbird, Utah.
New Industrial Affiliate 1/10/2022
Welcome to Toptica Photonics! Toptica is joining QuBBE as a new Industrial Affilliate, and we look forward to partnering with them on workforce development, quantum photonics, and biosensing.
NSF QuBBE Seminar 1/5/2022
Our inaugural NSF QuBBE seminar speaker, Adam Cohen, presented his work on mapping and controlling neural systems.
NSF QuBBE KickOff Meeting 1/4/2022
KickOff Meeting! Our first kickoff meeting with all PIs surveys the array of science across the QLCI and created new connecitons for collaboration and convergence. We had hoped to be in person for this, but COVID forced us to go virtual.
Italian Academy of Sciences 12/17/2021
Laura Gagliardi Elected to Italian National Academy of Sciences.
APS Rahman Prize 10/21/2022
Giulia Galli Awarded Rahman Prize from American Physical Society
Fellowship 9/24/2021
Congratulations to Nikita Onizhuk in Giulia Galli's group on receiving one of Google's PhD Fellowships in Quantum Computing. Nikita's work focuses on how properties of novel spin defects in materials can be used as quantum substrates.
NSF QuBBE QLCI Launches 9/2/2021
The NSF QuBBE QLCI has officially launched! Here is the NSF announcement. and here is an article from UChicago News on NSF QuBBE
NSF QuBBE Funded! 9/1/2021
The NSF QuBBE QLCI has been funded and will launch on September 2, 2021.
Site Visit 4/28/2021
Greg Engel, Valerie Goss, Allison Squires and Peter Maurer participated in the NSF virtual reverse site visit exploring the details of NSF QuBBE.
Proposal Submitted 2/1/2021
The team has submitted a proposal (>500 pages) detailing our vision for science, workforce development, and outreach focused on opportunities for emerging quantum science to attack grand challenges in biology and medicine.
It starts with a vision... 9/1/2020
The team coalesced around a shared vision for the QuBBE Challenge Institute: We see an opportunity for quanutm sensing to reovlutionize biological understanding.