Jeremy Reiter Honored with Presidential Early Career Award

President Obama today named 100 beginning researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Among the young scientists honored is Jeremy F. Reiter, MD, PhD, an assistant professor at UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI.) Dr. Reiter's research focuses on studying the mechanisms of intercellular communication, the ability of cells to send and receive information, during development from a single cell into a complex mechanism, and how mistakes in these signals contribute to diseases such as cancer.
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