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.

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