NIH Cites Yale Researcher’s Innovative Work on Microscopes

September 24, 2007

New Haven, Conn. — Derek Toomre, assistant professor of cell biology at Yale School of Medicine, has received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award to develop optical techniques for a new generation of microscopes that will help in researching cancer and diabetes, among other diseases.

The five-year grant, announced Tuesday, is among the first group of NIH’s New Innovator Awards—which are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Initiative that tests new approaches to supporting research.

"New investigators are the future of science, and innovative ideas are its lifeblood,” said NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D. “The creative scientists we recognize are well-positioned to make significant and potentially transformative discoveries in a variety of areas. The conceptual and technological breakthroughs that are likely to emerge from their highly innovative approaches to major research challenges could speed progress toward important medical advances.”

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