Category: Award

James Moon
Moon Awarded Michigan Drug Discovery Grant
June 18, 2020

Congratulations to James Moon who received a pilot grant from Michigan Drug Discovery to continue his ongoing work to develop immunotherapy agents for the treatment of cancer.

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Deepak Nagrath
Deepak Nagrath Named Forbes Scholar
May 7, 2020

Congratulations to Deepak Nagrath on being named one of the Rogel Cancer Center’s 2020 Forbes Scholars.  Nagrath is using genetic and clinical data from patients to identify mutations in ovarian cancer cells.

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Sunitha Nagrath
Sunitha Nagrath named Rogel Scholar
May 20, 2019

Congratulations to Sunitha Nagrath on being in the inaugural class of Rogel Scholars!

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BI NSF Graduate Fellows
April 18, 2019

Members of six BI groups were awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships.

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BI Innovator Awards Recipients
March 4, 2019

The inaugural 2019 BI Innovator Awards are awarded to Tim Bruns, Yichun Wang and Rose Cersonsky.

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Sunitha Nagrath
Sunitha Nagrath wins ACS Award
October 22, 2018

Sunitha Nagrath is the recipient of the 2018 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award. The award honors the contributions of an individual who has demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of microfluidics or nanofluidics in his or her early career.

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James Moon
James Moon Earns 2018 AAPS Emerging Leader Award
August 21, 2018

This award recognizes scientists and pharmaceutical professionals who are early in their careers, who have made a significant impact in the pharmaceutical sciences that promotes public health.

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Chestek, Moon and A. Schwendeman Promoted
May 21, 2018

Cindy Chestek (Biomedical Engineering), James Moon (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and A. Schwendeman (Pharmaceutical Sciences) were promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!

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Moon receives two R01 awards from NIH
Moon receives two R01 awards from NIH
April 7, 2017

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

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James Moon
Moon receives two R01 awards from NIH
April 7, 2017

Professor James Moon was awarded two NIH R01 awards.

One of the awards, “Tuning biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiforme”, is a collaboration with Drs. Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein from the UM Department of Neurosurgery. This collaboration was initially formed during the Nanomedicine Challenge hosted by BI in 2013 and received seed funding from BI to develop nanoparticles that can be used for the treatment of Gliobastoma Multiforme.

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