March 6, 2002

Haugh Receives National Science Foundation Career Award

Dr. Haugh

Dr. Jason M. Haugh, assistant professor of chemical engineering at NC State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective February 15, 2002. The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $375,000 in funding over the next five years.  Haugh will use the award to support his research project entitled “Intracellular Signaling Networks in the Immune Response.”  The project involves regulation of T cells, which are a part of the human immune system.  In addition to laboratory research, Haugh will modify a university course to include topics in immune cell regulation and will initiate an outreach program for middle school students that will introduce them to immune cell research.

Haugh’s research interests include biomedical and biochemical engineering, signal transduction networks and mammalian cell engineering.

He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from NC State in 1994 and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.

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