Deepak Nagrath Honored with Departmental Faculty Award
BME nominated Dr. Nagrath in light of recent recognitions for his research program investigating cancer cell metabolism and his national leadership in transcriptional medicine.
Congratulations to Deepak Nagrath, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, on receiving the CoE-sponsored Departmental Faculty Award. BME nominated Dr. Nagrath in light of recent recognitions for his research program investigating cancer cell metabolism and his national leadership in transcriptional medicine.
He is part of the leadership team for the Center for Transcriptional Medicine (CTM), which brings together more than 40 researchers from seven universities with the common goal of alleviating the burden of end-stage organ diseases through mRNA-LNP therapies. This interdisciplinary team of experts fosters collaboration and accelerates the development of exciting findings into clinical populations. The main goal of the Center for Transcriptional Medicine is to catalyze the generation of a novel approach to reprogram chronically injured tissues and organs. A recent issue of the U-M Rogel Cancer Center’s “Illuminate” magazine highlighted Dr. Nagrath’s work, featuring ways his lab studies how the tumor microenvironment communicates with and fuels cancer cells.