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  • Department of Bioengineering
  • Department of Biomedical Informatics
  • Department of Neurobiology
  • Department of Neuroscience
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Accolades & Honors

Three 51精品视频 Researchers Win NIH Director鈥檚 Awards

Peter Strick,the Thomas Detre Professor of Neuroscience and distinguished professor and chair of neurobiology,听was one of three 51精品视频 people to receive NIH Director鈥檚 Awards this year. Strick earned the , part of the , for his work on identifying a biological basis for the mind-body connection.

Warren Ruder, assistant professor of , and Erik Wright, assistant professor of , each won NIH Director鈥檚 , given to 鈥渆xceptionally creative early career investigators who propose high-impact projects.鈥

Ruder鈥檚 team will work to engineer cells that can be activated by high magnetic field gradients; Wright鈥檚 group will use thousands of microbial genomes to discover new antibiotics and figure out better ways of prescribing them听to address the serious public health threat of antibiotic resistance.