  {"id":3516,"date":"2021-10-14T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:25:16","slug":"brown-and-wan-win-nih-new-innovator-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2021\/10\/14\/brown-and-wan-win-nih-new-innovator-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown and Wan win NIH New Innovator Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2021\/10\/14\/brown-and-wan-win-nih-new-innovator-awards\/brown-wan_newinnovatoraward\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3517\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3517\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2021\/10\/14\/brown-and-wan-win-nih-new-innovator-awards\/brown-wan_newinnovatoraward\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward.png\" data-orig-size=\"1961,1196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-300x183.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-1024x625.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3517\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward-1536x937.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2021\/10\/19203924\/Brown-Wan_NewInnovatorAward.png 1961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/breann-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breann Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/william-wan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Wan<\/a>, both assistant professors of biochemistry and CSB faculty, have been awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/commonfund.nih.gov\/newinnovator\/AwardRecipients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIH Director&#8217;s New Innovator Awards<\/a>. They are among <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2021\/10\/05\/three-vanderbilt-scientists-awarded-nih-grants-for-high-risk-high-reward-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three Vanderbilt researchers<\/a> to receive an award for their high-risk, high-reward research.<\/p>\n<p>The award will support Breann&#8217;s project, <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/10244772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Off the beaten path(way): Spatiotemporal investigation of protein assemblies controlling mitochondrial metabolism<\/em><\/a>, where her lab uses structural biology and enzymology to understand mechanisms of macromolecular assembly necessary for mitochondrial signaling and metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Will&#8217;s award will help his lab to determine the mechanisms that drive viral infection by characterizing these molecular processes in cellular environments with his project, <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/10242476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Elucidating the mechanisms of viral life cycles under near-native conditions<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/commonfund.nih.gov\/newinnovator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIH Director&#8217;s New Innovator Award<\/a> is presented to exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences within the NIH mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breann Brown and Will Wan, both assistant professors of biochemistry and CSB faculty, have been awarded NIH Director&#8217;s New Innovator Awards. They are among three Vanderbilt researchers to receive an award for their high-risk, high-reward research. The award will support Breann&#8217;s project, Off the beaten path(way): Spatiotemporal investigation of protein assemblies controlling mitochondrial metabolism, where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}