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Nine graduate students have been awarded CBBI fellowships for 2008-2009 to train at the interface of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. The fellowships carry an annual stipend of $25,000 plus health insurance and travel support for research internship.

Notre Dame bioorganic chemist Shahriar Mobashery, the Navari Family Chair in Life Sciences, is the 2008 recipient of an Astellas USA Foundation Award by the American Chemical Society for his work on antibiotic resistance and his important contributions to the understanding of the bacterial cell wall.