Early Research Award and Ontario Research Funds to Lee and Rao

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Early Researcher Awards program recognizes provides new researchers with $140,000 each to build a research team, and the ORF-RI fund helps support infrastructure needs such as equipment and modern facilities. [Waterloo News]

  • Huung-Sool Lee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received an Early Research Award for leveraging advanced microbial electrochemical cell technologies for sustainable wastewater treatment
  • Praveen Nekkar Rao, School of Pharmacy received an Ontario Research Fund for pharmaceutical therapies for Alzheimer's disease