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Packard Foundation honors Prof. Janes with engineering fellowship

The David & Lucile Packard Foundation named Biomedical Engineering Asst. Prof. Kevin Janes a recipient of the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering last Thursday for his outstanding achievement in the field of biomedicine. In his research, Janes said he is trying to understand how the hundreds - and perhaps thousands - of different signaling molecules inside a cell work together as a network to coordinate a cell's decision to proliferate, differentiate or die in response to environmental changes. "I use the engineer's perspective to conclude how cells change according to different environments," Janes said. Janes said he plans to use the grant to support his general research activity by bringing two graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher onto the project.