New Appointments to NIH Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Training Grant

IME Faculty Awards.

$3.29m 5-year NIH Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Training Grant Awarded
An expanded NIH T32 training grant "Multi-disciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Biology" has been awarded for 5 years to support 12 trainees (6 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral). The program is directed by outgoing IME Director Peter F. Davies (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) together with 24 Penn faculty researchers in 3 Schools (Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences).

IME trainee wins the 2008-2009 Wharton Business Plan Competition Winner!
Congratulations to IME’s Armen Karamanian who shares in the success with Pitamber Devgon, Xiaoming Fang, and Bosun Hau. The group founded NIR Diagnostics.

2009 Emily Gray Award of the Biophysical Society, to Phil Nelson (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy).