Congratulations to Professor Amy Rowat, who has received a National Science Foundation BRITE Fellow award that will provide $995,000 of research funding over five years! This is the first time the foundation has given out these awards, which allow researchers to explore bold and ambitious ideas. Professor Rowat, the Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair of Food Studies, will research cells as materials to advance fundamental knowledge of cellular mechanical regulators and help sustain food production despite climate change and disruptions from natural disasters or epidemics.

Professor Reggie Edgerton featured in Los Angeles Times article titled: “Column: One step, then another. With determination and new therapies, there’s hope for paralysis patients”

Congratulations to Professor Eric Deeds for receiving a grant from the NIH-NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research titled, “Developing Tools for the Unbiased Analysis and Visualization of scRNA-seq Data”

 

Congratulations to Professor Eric Deeds for receiving a grant from the NIH-NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research titled, “Developing Tools for the Unbiased Analysis and Visualization of scRNA-seq Data”

Congratulations to Professor Elaine Hsiao for receiving a grant from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, to support innovative collaborative research with Dr. Amina Schartup (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)  and Dr. Mei Shen (University of Chicago)