This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
This is awarded to an individual whose accomplishments include significant utilization or application of basic knowledge in science to achieve a specific goal in the field of biomaterials.
“Karen has pioneered the use of injectable biomaterials to treat tissue after myocardial infarction (MI),” wrote nominator Jason Burdick, PhD. “This is an area that has grown greatly in the biomaterials community in the past decade, where biomaterials have been developed to deliver various biological and mechanical signals to the myocardium to improve outcomes of tissue remodeling.”
The UC San Diego Integrity Champion reward is intended to recognize actions or activities that are above and beyond those normally expected based on the individual's role within the University.
Quickly moving to Remote Instruction at the end of WI20 caused many integrity challenges for the entire community. For this 11th Annual Integrity Awards Nomination process, nominations that recognized the challenging environment and how community members rose to those challenges were included.