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Georgia Regents researcher receives $2.3 million Innovator Award

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Oct 13, 2014

A research at Georgia Regents University Cancer Center was awarded the National Institute of Health Director’s New Innovator Award for his research on obesity treatment.

The $2.3 million award will be dispensed to Satyanarayana Ande over five years. The award is one of only 50 granted nationwide and the only one given to a researcher in Georgia. The New Innovator Award is given to researchers for innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.

Ande a member of the GRU Cancer Center’s Molecular Oncology and Biomarkers program and an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. He was recruited to the GRU Cancer Center in May 2013 from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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