Kate Alexander wins NIH Director’s New Innovator award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Kate Alexander wins NIH Director’s New Innovator award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Katherine Alexander has been awarded a 2025 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. The grant provides Alexander with $475,000 per year for five years. It will support her lab’s investigations into nuclear speckles and their potential role in kidney cancer and neuroblastoma. “We’re at a very exciting time in the speckle field,” Alexander says. “We now have technologies that allow us to get int…