Agilent Early Career Professor Award Winner

Dr. Jindan Yu, assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.has been awarded the fifth annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award which endows $100,000 in unrestricted research funding

Dr Yu joined the faculty in the department of medicine at Northwestern University in 2009. Her research uses genomics and bioinformatics to better understand the progression of prostate cancer. Her aim is to develop novel prognostic/diagnostic tools and treatment strategies.

This year’s award focused on cancer diagnostics, a field of increasing importance to Agilent, which acquired Dako, a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics last year.

To qualify for the award, a professor must make significant contributions to the subset of cancer diagnostics aimed at multi-analyte tools for proteomic and/or genomic biomarkers in pathology. Yu has discovered several biomarkers associated with prostate cancer.

西北大学负责研究的副校长杰伊·沃尔什(Jay Walsh)说:“能够让一位教师的工作得到认可，尤其是在她职业生涯的早期，一直是一种巨大的荣誉。”“研究办公室祝贺余博士，并感谢安捷伦科技授予她这一荣誉。”

安捷伦大学关系和外部研究主任Jack Wenstrand说:“我们认可于博士在癌症基因组学和生物信息学方面的原创和重要成果，我们期待着跟随她未来在癌症诊断方面的研究。”“我们在全球范围内对提名的呼吁带来了一批出色的入围者，我们祝贺Yu博士，这个竞争性奖项的获胜者。”