April 2006
Sanjay Kumar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has received a 2006 Beckman Young Investigators Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigators Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.
Dr. Kumar was awarded the grant for his research on Engineering cell shape and mechanics in the nervous system, and was the only UC Berkeley professor to be selected for the 2006 award.
Congratulations Sanjay!