Professor Christy Haynes, an MSI PI from the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Professor Haynes uses MSI resources for projects related to the study of inflammatory response and drugs to fight inflammation. Her Guggenheim project will take her to the Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia for the 2018-19 academic year.
The highly competitive Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to “individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” (from the Guggenheim Foundation website) An article about the award and Professor Haynes’s work can be found on the chemistry department website: Professor Haynes awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.