Soroush Avval was recently named the 2026 Charles S. Peirce Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow for his research on distributed artificial intelligence models.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Wei Li, professor of chemical engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University, a $607,488 R15 grant to study circulating tumor cell (CTC) subtypes and expand undergraduate research experiences in biomedical engineering.
Texas Tech University researcher Dr. Zhongkui Hong has received a $594,288 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to investigate how interactions between cells and their surroundings contribute to atherosclerosis. The research could help identify new approaches to preventing or slowing the disease.