NHBLI Outstanding Investigator Award

The National Health Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health announced a seven-year, $6.7 million Outstandng Investigator Award to David Erle and his group. This award, which replaces two existing NIH R01 awards, will fund research on "Airway Epithelial Gene Regulation: New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies." Nadav Ahituv, Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Prescott Woodruff, Professor of Medicine, are Co-Investigators.