Three dark-haired women in dark blue lab coats look at a computer monitor to the left. — Professor Lin Tian (left), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in her lab with graduate students Yihan Jin and Nikki Tjahjono. Tian has received a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation for brain research. (Megan Taylor)

UC Davis Wins Two Awards From the W.M. Keck Foundation

Grants Fund Groundbreaking Research in Technology and the Brain

by Clémentine Sicard
March 07, 2022

"For the first time in university history, the W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded two research teams at the University of California, Davis, with $1 million each in the same award cycle.

The two grants will support innovative research projects that have the potential to make major breakthroughs in their respective fields. One will study where chemical reactions occur in deep regions of the brain to improve the treatments for brain disorders; the other will create new technology for communications and medicine that operates at wavelengths that are not currently utilized."

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