NSF Career Award: Elsje Pienaar

January 6, 2022

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards: Congrats to Elsje Pienaar, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering), for Complexity From Simplicity: Multi-scale Computational Deciphering of the Viral Life Cycle. The award, granted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, will use a combination of experimental data and computer simulations to understand and predict the complex interactions that drive Ebola virus infection. Such an understanding will allow the identification of any weak points in this protein network that can be targeted with new drugs.