Congratulations to Lucas Farnung who was awarded a New Innovator Award from NIH for his project Visualizing Mechanisms at the Intersection of Chromatin, Transcription, and Epigenetics.

The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, established in 2007, supports unusually innovative research from early career investigators who are within 10 years of their final degree or clinical residency and have not yet received an NIH R01 or equivalent grant.

The 2023 NIH Director’s Awards fund projects with potential to change the trajectory of biomedical science. The National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program awarded 85 new research grants to support highly innovative scientists who propose visionary and broadly impactful behavioral and biomedical research projects.