Scientist Is Recipient of $1.6 Million NIH Research Grant June 20, 2014

Kate Lewis, an associate professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, has added yet another award to her already extensive list of accolades. Lewis, who earlier this year was awarded a research grant by the Human Frontier Science Program Organization, just received a $1.6 million RO1 research grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Lewis will use the money to study how particular types of nerve cells, called interneurons, are specified in the spinal cord.
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Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant April 10, 2014

To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted from researchers all over the world. Applicants went through a rigorous year-long selection process and when all was said and done, only 34 submissions were selected to receive awards. Ten awards were given to Young Investigator teams, while 24 program grants were handed out. Among this year’s program grant recipients is an intercontinental team, consisting of Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences; Claire Wyart of The French Brain and Spine Institute; and Aix Marseille University’s Patrick Delmas.
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