September 22, 2008 -

BioE Alumna Karen Christman, an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, is one of two UC San Diego faculty who received an National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award. She joined the UCSD faculty in 2007 after earning a Ph.D in bioengineering from the UC Berkeley / UCSF Graduate Group.

Christman plans to use the $1.5 million New Innovator Award grant from the NIH to help fuel the growing field of tissue engineering.

The awards, announced Sept. 22, were created in 2007 to support a small number of new investigators who have exceptional creativity and propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major breakthrough on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research.

Christman will use the five-year grant to further her research in developing a novel and innovative multi-layer patterning technique that will provide step-by-step cues for cell and tissue development.

Congratulations Karen!

Read the full story at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering website