Cancer Research Scholar Joins the Faculty at the University of Texas

Ning Jenny Jiang is joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. She was awarded a $2 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas to come to the university to participate in cutting-edge research on cancer. The money will be used to support graduate research assistants and to buy laboratory equipment and supplies. Dr. Jiang has been conducting postdoctoral research at Stanford University on the human immune system.

Dr. Jiang earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2007 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.