HWNI member Markita Landry, associate professor of neuroscience and chemical & biomolecular engineering, has been nominated by UC Berkeley for an inaugural UC Regents Innovation Award. The awards recognize faculty and community partners from across all ten UC campuses who turn research into real-world impact.
Landry is UC Berkeley’s nominee for the Disruptive Research Award. Her lab creates biotechnologies without the expense, damage, and stigma associated with conventional genetic manipulation. Landry has created nanosensors that allow visualization of neuromodulators in living human brain tissue so researchers can see how brain chemistry changes in addiction and autism. Her lab has also developed a method to edit a single plant cell before it grows into an adult plant as a faster and cheaper way to modify crops, which has already been adopted internationally.
Read more about Landry and the four other UC Berkeley Regents Innovation Awards nominees.
