The National Institutes of Health just awarded a 2022 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to Quiroz for our lab’s innovative molecular approaches to monitoring intracellular clumps of disordered proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Part of NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the New Innovator Award recognizes exceptionally creative early career investigators. The new award will provide $2.4 million in funding over the next five years.
To learn more about this award and our research, check out Emory and Coulter BME’s coverage of this announcement.
![Quiroz receives the 2022 NIH's New Innovator Award](https://quirozlab.bme.gatech.edu/files/2022/10/M100301-22JK-007-Final-8x10-1-683x1024.jpg)