Vikas Nanda, PhD, Earns Prestigious New Innovator Award from National Institutes of Health
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
Vikas Nanda, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and a member of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is one of this year�s recipients of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director�s New Innovator Award. Dr. Nanda will receive $1.5 million over five years to support his novel approach to creating a synthetic network of proteins resembling the extracellular matrix of mammalian cells.