Scientists Secure NIH High-Risk High-Reward Grants

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Four scientists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons were awarded grants from NIH's prestigious High-Risk High-Reward program, created to support unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

Three scientists-Jennifer Small-Saunders, Department of Medicine; Dian Yang, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics; and Sara Zaccara, Department of Systems Biology-received New Innovator Awards, which support unusually innovative research from early-career investigators.

Alex Dranovsky, Department of Psychiatry, received a Transformative Research Award, which funds research that could create new paradigms or challenge existing ones.

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