Assoc. Prof. Ozgur Sahin receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award

We are delighted to report that Associate Professor Ozgur Sahin is the recipient of an NIH Director's New Innovator Award. This prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health supports exceptionally promising early-career scientists whose research is both unusually creative and is poised to have "a significant impact on an important biomedical or behavioral research problem."

Ozgur is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Physics. His research focuses on biological systems that function under physical extremes, such as short timescales, confinement to nanoregions of space, and intense mechanical forces. This research offers insight into a wide range of medical-, environmental-, and energy-related problems.

The NIH Director's New Innovator Award offers support of up to $1.5 million over a period of 5 years. It is intended to help stimulate highly innovative research and to support promising early stage investigators.

Congratulations, Ozgur!