{"id":2509,"date":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/third-salk-biophotonics-researcher-wins-distinguished-nih-new-innovator-award\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:00:00","slug":"third-salk-biophotonics-researcher-wins-distinguished-nih-new-innovator-award","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/third-salk-biophotonics-researcher-wins-distinguished-nih-new-innovator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Salk biophotonics researcher wins distinguished NIH New Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA JOLLA\u2013Scientists at the Salk Institute have scored a rare hat trick with a third assistant professor from the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center<\/a> being named a recipient of the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nHu Cang<\/a> will receive the New Innovator Award for 2014, joining the two other Salk researchers who were also previously recipients of the prize. The award will provide Cang with $1.5 million to support his research on cutting-edge microscopy. Only 50 New Innovator Awards were given out this year.\n<\/p>\n

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Hu Cang, Assistant Professor, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center<\/p>\n

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\nBild: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Salk Institute for Biological Studies\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe NIH Director’s New Innovator Award is a highly selective program with hundreds of researchers from the nation’s top scientific institutions competing for the award. Cang, along with a select group of other young investigators, will receive this funding to pursue novel ideas with the potential to have a significant impact on human health.\n<\/p>\n

\n“We are very proud of Dr. Cang and grateful for NIH’s continuing support of young researchers who pursue creative and highly innovative science,\u201d says William Brody<\/a>, president of the Salk Institute. \u201cThe ability to see molecular components of cellular structures are crucial to advancing biology and medicine, and his work is expanding the frontiers of microscopy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThe New Innovator award will support Cang in his work in developing a \u201csuper lens\u201d that sees things far smaller than previously possible. Cang\u2019s group has already made a microscope that can focus light down to a smaller point than ever before, letting them track individual proteins on the surface of a cell. He\u2019s particularly interested in using his new approach to study the structure of genetic material, which is notoriously hard to visualize. Being able to see how strands of DNA fold and loop when they\u2019re packed within a cell nucleus might reveal how genes are turned on and off in both healthy and diseased cells.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe fact that all three of our junior faculty at the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center have won this prestigious award speaks to our ability to recruit the very best young scientists and highlights the exceptionally high quality of science that we do here,\u201d says Martin Hetzer, faculty director of the center and holder of Salk\u2019s Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation Chair.\n <\/p>\n

\n“By putting these incredible tools of the Biophotonics Center in the hands of Salk investigators in an interdisciplinary teamwork environment, breakthroughs are bound to happen,\u201d says Ted Waitt, vice-chair of the Salk Institute Board of Trustees and chairman of the Waitt Foundation. “This exciting hat-trick leads the way to a continued bright future of the Center and speaks to the high quality of research at the Salk Institute.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nBj\u00f6rn Lillemeier<\/a>, an assistant professor in the Nomis Foundation Laboratorien f\u00fcr Immunbiologie und mikrobielle Pathogenese<\/a> und Axel Nimmerjahn<\/a>, an assistant professor in the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, received the award in 2012.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cBrilliant scientists, such as past New Innovator award recipient Bj\u00f6rn Lillemeier and others, are able to make groundbreaking discoveries because of technologies the Salk has in place to advance success,\u201d said Heini Thyssen, former trustee and founder of the Nomis Laboratory at the Salk Institute.\n<\/p>\n

\nLillemeier, holder of Salk\u2019s Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair, aims to understand how cellular communication is controlled in space and time. He creates unique optical microscopy techniques that visualize the molecular organization of plasma membrane signaling in live cells. His research reveals new signaling mechanisms that can be used to target the large number of diseases associated with membrane signaling defects.\n<\/p>\n

\nNimmerjahn, holder of the Hearst Foundation Developmental Chair, develops novel research tools to understand brain cells called glia in intact healthy and diseased brains. The New Innovator award supported his research into microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain that are involved in essentially all brain pathologies. Better understanding their signaling mechanisms may lead to new or improved disease prevention and treatment strategies.\n<\/p>\n

\nEstablished in 2007, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators. For more information on the New Innovator award, including a complete list of this year’s awardees, please visit: http:\/\/commonfund.nih.gov\/newinnovator<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u00dcber das Salk Institute for Biological Studies:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nDas Salk Institute for Biological Studies ist eine der weltweit f\u00fchrenden Institutionen f\u00fcr Grundlagenforschung, an der international renommierte Fakult\u00e4tsmitglieder grundlegende Fragen der Biowissenschaften in einem einzigartigen, kollaborativen und kreativen Umfeld untersuchen. Mit dem Fokus auf Entdeckungen und die Ausbildung zuk\u00fcnftiger Forschergenerationen leisten Salk-Wissenschaftler bahnbrechende Beitr\u00e4ge zu unserem Verst\u00e4ndnis von Krebs, Alterung, Alzheimer, Diabetes und Infektionskrankheiten durch die Untersuchung von Neurowissenschaften, Genetik, Zell- und Pflanzenbiologie sowie verwandten Disziplinen.<\/p>\n

\nFaculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. 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