Category: Award

Cynthia Chestek and collaborator Paul Cederna received funding from the inaugural round of the Frankel Innovation Initiative for their project on Peripheral Nerve Interfaces for Prosthetic Hand Control.

For his work in self-assembly processes at the nanoscale, Nick Kotov received the 2020 Alpha Chi Sigma Award.

Congratulations to James Moon who received a pilot grant from Michigan Drug Discovery to continue his ongoing work to develop immunotherapy agents for the treatment of cancer.

Congratulations to Deepak Nagrath on being named one of the Rogel Cancer Center’s 2020 Forbes Scholars.  Nagrath is using genetic and clinical data from patients to identify mutations in ovarian cancer cells.

Congratulations to the 2020 BI Innovator Award Recipients. BI Innovator awards recognize members of the BI research community who are active participants in the research, innovation and translational ecosystem at BI.

The 2020 awardees will be featured speakers at the BI Research Day on March 18.

Three major research initiatives projects were awarded to BI faculty in the latest round of funding from the Biosciences Initiative

Congratulations to Carlos Aguilar on being awarded a Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grant for Junior Faculty.

Congratulations to Lola Eniola-Adefeso who was named one of the inaugural recipients of a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship.

Isabelle Lombaert was named Salivary Researcher of the Year by the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) – The Salivary Research Group (SRG).

Congratulations to Sunitha Nagrath on being in the inaugural class of Rogel Scholars!