$1.5 Million ‘New Innovator’ Grant From NIH For Fruit-Fly Studies Of Prion Proteins
The National Institutes of Health has selected University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni officially announced the 29 recipients of the grants, designed to foster young biomedical researchers with bold new ideas, at a symposium at NIH headquarters yesterday, Sept. 19.
