Michael Meers, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (Links to an external site)

Meers and his team are developing a novel time-lapse profiling method to monitor changes in how a cell’s genes are regulated as it goes through the reprogramming process. A better understanding of these changes could lead to the development of more precise and efficient cell conversion methods that are more suitable for human therapeutics.