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Profs awarded generous grant

Two profs given $1.5 million of funding

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Two young Yale professors have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health for the promise their research holds for both their careers and the world.

Derek Toomre, a professor of cell biology at the Yale School of Medicine, and David Spiegel, a professor of organic chemistry, have each received a $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the NIH. The five-year grants will allow the two to pursue major research projects in their fields.

In its first year, the New Innovator program awarded 29 grants to scientists from across the country. To emphasize its focus on young...

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