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Sun Receives MIRA Award from National Institute of General Medicine Service

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Simou (Summer) Sun, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry, has received a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS).

Sun’s award, “Deciphering the regulatory mechanisms of extracellular particle-mediated signaling,” will provide $2.2 million over five years. The NIH MIRA program is intended to enhance scientific productivity for the nation’s highly talented and most promising investigators.

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