Biological Sciences Division

University of Chicago campus with the Chicago skyline in the background

Five UChicago scientists named 2020 AAAS fellows

Nels Elde

At UChicago, MacArthur fellow learned to pursue ‘creative science’

Over prescribing

Women are overmedicated because drug dosage trials are done on men, study finds

Aerial photo of UChicago Medicine campus

‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital

Mussels cling to a rock at low tide.

Genetic variation could help some species adapt to climate change

Two UChicago scientists win fellowships fostering ‘blue-sky’ research

Scientists build army of metal-organic nanoflowers to treat cancer

Thomas Gajewski

Specific microbes in digestive tract can boost success for cancer immunotherapy

World War I-era maps help track history of kelp forests in Pacific Northwest

Eminent bioengineering scholar to lead UChicago’s Center for Physics of Evolving Systems