{"id":21727,"date":"2017-10-05T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:55","slug":"nih-new-innovator-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=21727","title":{"rendered":"UNC chemist Bo Li wins NIH New Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNC chemist Bo Li (photo by Lars Sahl)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chemist Bo Li at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/a><\/p>\n

Li, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences, focuses her research on bioactive small molecules produced by bacteria and the ways in which they may help defend the human body against infectious diseases. Her lab is dedicated to unlocking the hidden chemistry of bacterial genomes and discovering the next generation of antibiotics.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NIH Director\u2019s New Innovator Award<\/a>, established in 2007, supports unusually innovative research from early career investigators. Li was among 55 winners nationwide.<\/p>\n

The New Innovator Award<\/a> will support Li\u2019s research<\/a> to identify novel combinations of antibiotics that exert synergistic activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Understanding how these antibiotics work together may create new ways to overcome antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n

The award was announced Oct. 5 as a component of the NIH\u2019s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program<\/a>, part of the NIH Common Fund, which funded 86 awards to exceptionally creative scientists proposing to use highly innovative approaches to tackle major challenges in biomedical research.<\/p>\n

Applicants of the program are encouraged to think outside-the-box and to pursue exciting, trailblazing ideas in any area of research relevant to the NIH mission.<\/p>\n

Li is a previous winner of a Packard Fellowship<\/a>, an NSF CAREER Award and a Rita Allen Foundation Scholars award. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Read an Endeavors magazine \u201cWomen in Science Wednesday<\/a>\u201d feature on Bo Li.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chemist Bo Li at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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