Award grants 1.5 million dollars to fund innovative, high-impact research
Emily Derbyshire, assistant professor of chemistry at Duke University, and Huanghe Yang, assistant professor of biochemistry in the Duke University School of Medicine, have been named the recipients of a 2017 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. As part of the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the award grants 1.5 million dollars over a five-year period to fund innovative, high-impact research from exceptionally creative early career investigators.