Ahmed El Kaffas, PhD, Feliks Kogan, PhD, and Adam Wang, PhD, named recipients of NIH NIBIB Trailblazer R21 Awards

November 6, 2020

Ahmed El Kaffas, PhD, Feliks Kogan, PhD, and Adam Wang, PhD, named recipients of NIH NIBIB Trailblazer R21 Award.

This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the NIBIB that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data.

Here are the awarded projects:

Ahmed El Kaffas, PhD: Development of Molecular Microbubble Probes and Ultrasound-Guidance in Immunotherapeutic Strategies (R21-EB029046-01)

Feliks Kogan, PhD: Assessment of Bone Metabolism After Localized Mechanical Loading (R21-EB030180-01)

Adam Wang, PhD: Single-Shot Quantitative X-Ray Imaging for Interventional Procedures (R21-EB03008001)