Health & Wellness

BIO5 member Raina Maier, Xinxin Ding, and Yin Chen are part of a $14.8 million National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant supporting new research to understand and reduce health risks from metalloid-contaminated dust in Southwestern mining communities.

Interim BIO5 director Vignesh Subbian and BIO5 member Justin Starren were honored by the American College of Medical Informatics for their leadership in biomedical informatics and health data science, along with Jose Fernando Florez-Arango.

BIO5 member Shang Song received a $2.32 million NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to develop a biodegradable bioimplant that uses electrical stimulation to restore movement and improve quality of life after spinal cord injury.