Includes Manu Prakash of Stanford University.
AB Wire
Six prominent Indian American researchers are amongst the recipients of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awards for 2015.
The six Indian Americans are: Sanjay Basu of Stanford University, Karunesh Ganguly of University of California at San Francisco, Kamil Godula of University of California at San Diego, Deepika Mohan of University of Pittsburgh, Manu Prakash of Stanford University, and Abhishek Prasad of University of Miami.
Basu, an epidemiologist, is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford, and received his B.S. from MIT, M.Sc. from Oxford, and M.D./Ph.D. from Yale.
Ganguly, a specialist in neural engineering, is an assistant professor at UCSF and a staff physician in the Neurology and Rehabilitation Service at SFVAMC. He graduated from Stanford University, and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a M.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Godula is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego. He has a M.Sc. in organic chemistry from Marquette University and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Mohan is an assistant professor of critical care medicine and surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a B.A. in religion and political theory from Princeton University, M.D. from Emory University, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University.
Prakash is an alum of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has a Ph.D. in the area of Applied Physics lab from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Prasad, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami, received his M.S. in biomedical engineering from Louisiana Tech University. He has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey.