Career Awardee: Edward Boyden

Clinical CO-Investigator: Alan Horsager
Institution: University of Southern California
Project Title: Direct Optical Neural Silencing: A New Strategy for Treating Blindness

Career Awardee: Utkan Demirci

Clinical CO-Investigator: Robert Falk
Institution: Harvard University -- MIT
Project Title: Electrical Sensors for Rare Cell Populations in Whole Blood

Career Awardee: Ayman El-Baz

Institution: University of Louisville
Project Title: Novel Image Analysis Framework for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

Career Awardee: Julie Hasenwinkel

Clinical CO-Investigator: Amir Fayyazi
Institution: Syracuse University
Project Title: Novel Two-Solution Based Bone Cements for Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty

Career Awardee: Pedro Irazoqui

Clinical CO-Investigator: Robert Worth
Institution: Purdue University
Project Title: A Hermetic Biocompatible Ceramic Package for Neural Prosthesess

Career Awardee: Ho-Wook Jun

Clinical CO-Investigator: Brigitta Brott
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Project Title: Biomimetic Nano Matrix for Drug Eluting Stent Application

Career Awardee: Yunzhi Yang

Clinical CO-Investigator: Milan Sen
Institution: University of Tennessee, Memphis
Project Title: Optimizing Bone Regeneration with Load-Bearing and Osteoinductive Functionally Graded Biomimetic Scaffolds

Career Awardee: Xiaojun Yu

Clinical CO-Investigator: Cato Laurencin
Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology
Project Title: Novel Structured Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Bone Healing

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