Three MIT faculty members have been chosen to receive the New Innovators Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. Michael Birnbaum and Anders Hansen, both assistant professors of the Department of Biological Engineering, and Tami Lieberman, an assistant professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will each receive the award. “The flexibility provided by this award will allow my young lab to pursue the most interesting and important leads we uncover as we build new genomic tools to understand…
