24 Huskers receive Layman Awards to boost research
July 12th, 2022
The Office of Research and Economic Development is supporting 24 research projects in 2022-23 through its Layman Awards program, which funds work that enhances a researcher’s ability to obtain external funding to support prominent scholarship.
The program offers two tracks — the Layman Seed Program, which funds new projects by early-career faculty who are nontenured at the time of submission; and the New Directions Program, which funds tenured faculty who are branching into new research directions or need funding to support pilot or developmental work toward the next step in a funded research program. Awards of up to $10,000 per application for each program are made possible by support from the University of Nebraska Foundation.
2022 Layman Seed Program awards
- João Carlos Gomes-Neto, food science and technology, “Population-based mining of accessory genome loci to identify cryptic genotypic units of the zoonotic pathogen Salmonella Monophasic.”
2022 Layman New Directions Grants
- Etsuko Moriyama, School of Biological Sciences, “Interaction potential between non-human SARS-CoV-2 proteins and human cell proteins using co-evolution frameworks.”
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Story by Heidi Uhing | Research and Economic Development