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Songi Han Receives Prestigious NIH New Innovator Award
Songi Han, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa
Barbara, has been selected to receive a coveted 2011 New Innovator
Award from the National Institutes of Health. The award, which carries a
$1.5 million grant, will enable Han to take the basic instrumental and
methodological development of a novel spectroscopic tool to the next
level of complexity and relevance in understanding molecular mechanisms
of protein aggregation underlying neurodegenerative diseases, such as
Alzheimer's. Studying their interactions with cell membranes may
provide clues to their mechanism and disease effects. 
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Songi Han
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