UCF’s Kyu Young Han Receives NIH Grants

Kyu Young Han, assistant professor in the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Optics and Photonics, has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The first is a Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award for early-stage investigator. Han, the first faculty member at UCF to receive the grant, will pursue a bioengineering tool and imaging system to image multiple proteins in a single cell under a superresolution microscope. Current techniques for this task can take weeks to image fewer than 20 target proteins. Han expects to be able to accomplish this with nanoscale resolution in 24 hours. He will be working with two of his graduate students and collaborating with researchers from Rutgers...