27 August 2021

Bigger than the sum of its parts

Scientific trio works together to expand the flatworm community toolbox

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12 August 2021

Three postdocs presented with funding notifications

Kristin Watt, Curtis Bacon, Jasmin Camacho receive notification of funding.

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07 July 2021

Leadership Fellows Program fills a need for executive level training and experience

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24 June 2021

A fond farewell to the Conaways

The Stowers Institute recognizes two decades of research, service, and achievements by Investigators Joan and Ron Conaway.

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14 June 2021

Celebrating a life of service

Longtime Kansas Citian, Virginia Glascock Stowers—wife of the late James “Jim” E. Stowers Jr., mother of three daughters and one son, nurse, and co-founder of the research institute that bears the family name—died at her home in Kansas City, MO, on June 5, 2021. She was 91.

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17 May 2021

Shuonan He: finding evolutionary biology in the weird

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03 May 2021

Scientists in the making

Meet this year’s ensemble of new predoctoral researchers at the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute and find out some of what spurred their scientific curiosities.

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19 April 2021

When science meets art

“I was always so fascinated by those images,” says Peloggia de Castro. “I looked at them and thought, one day I want to do that."

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07 April 2021

A discussion with Ron Conaway, PhD

An exchange with one part of the dynamic duo known as “The Conaways”

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05 April 2021

New year brings new grant announcements for Stowers researchers

Several Stowers researchers have received funding notifications during the first quarter of 2021, including both investigators and trainees.

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31 March 2021

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado appointed the Priscilla Wood Neaves Endowed Chair in the Biomedical Sciences

Stowers President Emeritus William B. Neaves, PhD, offers commentary on the appointment of Alejandro Sánchez Alvarada as Priscilla Wood Neaves Endowed Chair in the Biomedical Sciences at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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24 March 2021

American Century hosts Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado in COVID-19 webcast series

American Century Investments talks with Stowers Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado in a COVID-19 webcast series focusing on the science behind the Sars-CoV-2 virus, variants of the virus, and vaccine development.

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19 February 2021

The birth of BPNet—a true interdisciplinary collaboration

A behind-the-paper glimpse at how scientific discoveries come to life

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01 February 2021

Hawley Lab brings silkworms to Stowers

The silkworm is one of the most well-studied lepidopteran model systems worldwide, and a recent arrival in the Hawley Lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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28 December 2020

Functional amyloids: a “magical” protein state

How much maligned amyloids may be the key to our memories

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30 November 2020

Doubling down on protein complex modeling

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have developed an approach that integrates several technologies to build detailed structural models of protein complexes, which are made up of multiple proteins that assemble and work together to perform a biological function.

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06 October 2020

Rohner, Zanders recognized for research contributions

Two early-career Stowers investigators, Nicolas Rohner, PhD, and Sarah Zanders, PhD, were recently recognized for having a significant impact on their fields.

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01 September 2020

Stowers researchers supported by multiple mid-year award announcements

Several researchers at the Stowers Institute received award notifications during the past few months, including investigators, a postdoctoral researcher, and predoctoral researchers.

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20 July 2020

Immune system adaptations in cavefish may provide autoimmune disease insight

Researchers from the Stowers Institute see cavefish as a potential way to understand more about the rise in autoimmune diseases in humans.

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16 June 2020

Persistent DNA damage in the placenta affects pregnancy outcomes

Scientists at the Stowers Institute have shown that a dysfunctional placenta can play a previously unrecognized role during the earliest stages of development in mouse models

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27 April 2020

Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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20 April 2020

What’s old is new again

The study’s researchers found that low doses of the anthracycline antibiotic doxorubicin inhibit the interaction between two molecular pathways that work closely together to promote tumor growth and resistance to therapy. The targeted approach also clears the way for cancer-targeting immune cells to do their work, an unexpected and novel finding, according to the study authors.

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14 April 2020

Technologies converge on interacting surfaces in protein complexes

Researchers at the Stowers Institute have fine-tuned a method to pinpoint surfaces within large multi-protein complexes that are close to, and likely to be directly interacting with, one another.

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06 April 2020

First quarter 2020 awards acknowledge research efforts

Assistant Investigator Randal Halfmann, PhD, was awarded a four-year grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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