Posts filed under Grants & Awards

Double Hoo Award

Congrats to Ben and Maura for being awarded a Double Hoo Research Grant through the Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of Virginia!  This prestigious award will allow them to continue working together on a project entitled: Visualization and Quantification of Immune Responses in Lymph Nodes.  They look forward to being able to work together this coming summer to complete this project.  More information can be found in the related UVA Today news article.

Posted on April 12, 2016 and filed under Grants & Awards, People.

Prof. Pompano named a Hartwell Investigator

On April 1, Professor Pompano was honored to be named a 2015 Hartwell Investigator.  The Hartwell Foundation funds early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research to benefit children. The 2015 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award will fund our work using microfluidics to guide the design of therapeutic vaccines for children with neuroblastoma.

More information about the Foundation and the award can be found by clicking through the image above.  

Read more about the award in the Chemistry department news and in the UVA Today.   Congratulations also to Prof. John Lukens of the BIG Center, who also received a Hartwell Award this year!

 

Posted on April 2, 2016 and filed under Grants & Awards.