Adrienne Fairhall and Tom Daniel (Biology) are to co-direct a new UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN), thanks to a recent multimillion dollar award from the Washington Research Foundation. One of four new centers to be established on UW campus, the Washington Research Foundation’s mission is to redistribute funds raised through UW patents to research endeavors that stimulate the development of intellectual property and industrial connections for UW.
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