Penn Researchers Awarded More Than $1 Million in Kaufman Foundation Awards
University of Pennsylvania researchers will receive five of the 10 grants being awarded this year by the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, part of The Pittsburgh Foundation, which supports cutting-edge scientific research in chemistry, biology and physics at institutions across Pennsylvania.
Penn Arts and Sciences' Justin Khoury, Tom Lubensky, and Andrea Liu are awardees in the New Initiative Research category. Khoury, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Lubensky, the Christopher H. Brown Distinguished Professor of Physics, will receive funding for research on “New approach to dark matter.” Liu, the Hepburn Professor of Physics, is part of a research team that will test the theoretical idea that in the embryonic heart, cells use mechanical, not electrical, signals to coordinate their contraction in order to pump blood.
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