{"id":7692,"date":"2019-10-15T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:20:20","slug":"hyejung-won-phd-awarded-nih-directors-new-innovator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/hyejung-won-phd-awarded-nih-directors-new-innovator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyejung Won, PhD Awarded NIH Director\u2019s New Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6212 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2018\/08\/hyejung-won.jpg\" alt=\"Hyejung Won\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2018\/08\/hyejung-won.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2018\/08\/hyejung-won-150x199.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Hyejung Won, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center, received a New Innovator Award as part of the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.<\/p>\n<p> This five-year program will focus on leveraging innovative genomics approaches to bridge the gap between genetic risk factors and neurobiological mechanisms by mapping genetic variants of unknown function to the genes that they regulate. Her lab will also work to identify how dysfunctional gene regulation contributes to the development of disease.\u00a0 She is also a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award and the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hyejung Won, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Member, UNC Neuroscience Center, received a New Innovator Award as part of the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,42],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-unc-genetics","tag-won","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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