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5/28/2009 IBB awards 2009 Hamill Innovation grantsBY JADE BOYDRice News staff
Now in its fifth year, the Hamill Innovation Grant program provides seed funding for research that traditional funding agencies might see as too risky, despite a big potential payoff. "The Hamill Foundation was truly visionary when it established this program five years ago because startup funding for high-risk, high-payoff research is harder and harder to come by from traditional sources," said IBB Director Yousif Shamoo, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology. The program provides one-year, $15,000 grants that cover direct startup costs. Proposals are judged on their originality, scientific rigor, potential impact and integration of the collaborative team. The Hamill Award Grants program is funded by a grant from the Hamill Foundation, which has supported IBB since its founding in 1986. The 2009 Hamill Award winners will be formally recognized at the fifth annual IBB Symposium July 15. This year's winners are: • Sibani Lisa Biswal, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Laura Segatori, the T.N. Law Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, for "Engineering a Nanomechanical Sensor to Translate Protein Conformations for Disease Detection."
• Kenneth Whitney, assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, and Michael Covington, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, for "Seed-seed Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana: Evolutionary Ecology and Molecular Mechanisms of a Newly Discovered Process.” • Michael Wong, associate professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and in chemistry; Ramon Gonzalez, the William W. Akers Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Jonathan Silberg, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, for "Synthesis and Characterization of Bionanoparticles for Light-triggered Control of Protein Function." |
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