Ten professors win NSF CAREER Awards

Ten UC Riverside faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Awards to support research in areas ranging from early detection of diseases to human-robot interactions.The awards support early career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and advance their organization’s mission. Research conducted with these funds is intended to form the foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.UCR’s 2024 CAREER Award recipients and the projects funded are listed alphabetically below.Juhong Chen, an assistant professor of bioengineering, is focused on using genetic engineering techniques for the early identification of diseases and problematic health conditions. Chen’s CAREER project will exploit CRISPR technology to detect biomarkers for life-threatening cancers, pathogens, and other maladies. This will be done by identifying genetic variations in the human genome known as single nucleotide polymor...