Purvis earns NIH New Innovator Award

With a focus on stem cells, Jeremy Purvis, PhD, wants to tap the power of computer modeling to develop regenerative medicine solutions to medical conditions.

Jeremy Purvis, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at the UNC School of Medicine, received an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for his work using computer models to design ways to convert human stem cells into functionally differentiated cell types – the crux of stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine, which aims to repair damaged tissue and organs that cannot be repaired with current therapies.

The New Innovator Award program is different from traditional National Institutes of Health grants. It is designed specifically to support unusually creative investigators with highly innovative research ideas in the early stages of their careers.