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Professor Orly Alter Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Orly Alter of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected as one of this year's recipients of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The NSF CAREER Awards are major recognitions of early academic achievements and original research.
"Orly Alter's most imaginative research is recognized once more with a national award", said Professor Nicholas A Peppas, Chair-designate of the Biomedical Engineering Department. "I believe that Orly's imaginative methods and algorithms will help physicians model and control various types of biological systems as readily as today's engineers model and control physical systems today", continued Peppas.
Orly's work has opened new avenues in biomedical modeling. Her work will bring new levels of accuracy and precision to medical diagnosis, treatment and drug design. Ultimately, I believe her contributions will help improve the quality of life of our patients and citizens".
Professor Orly Alter earned her Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1999. She joined the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences of the Cockrell School of Engineering in 2004 and has already received significant funding and several other awards for her research, including a 2007 $1.5 million NIH R01 Grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Professor Alter's new award/grant is entitled "Integrative and Comparative Tensor Algebra Models of DNA Microarray Data from Different Studies of the Cell Cycle" and it carries $ 400,000 over 5 years. It is supported by the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
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