Feb. 26, 2013 College News - Rebekah Gundry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2013 Robert J. Cotter Young Investigator Award by the U.S. Human Proteome Organization (US HUPO). Dr. Gundry will present a lecture and receive the award and honorarium during the upcoming US HUPO conference in Baltimore March 10-13.
The annual national award was established in honor of the late Dr. Robert Cotter, a founding US HUPO Board member, to recognize an outstanding early career faculty member who is using proteomic technologies to address outstanding questions in human biology. Dr. Gundry is being recognized for her work on applying mass spectrometry and proteomics to human stem cell biology and cardiac development.
Dr. Gundry joined the Biochemistry faculty in 2010 and is also a member of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center.