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January 13, 2011
The University of Minnesota will award Assistant Professor Chad Myers the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, a two-year appointment that includes a research grant for each year. The award will be bestowed in March and begin on July 1, 2011.
Myers specializes in computational biology and functional genomics. His research focuses on machine learning methods for integrating large-scale genomic datasets to understand gene function and biological networks.
The University of Minnesota Graduate School founded the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship program in 1987 as a way to recognize the school's most promising junior faculty. The program is intended to help advance the careers of assistant professors in the early stages of their careers and recognize them for their potential for significant future contributions to their respective field.
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