{"630124":{"#nid":"630124","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two BME Faculty Awarded Emory School of Medicine Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Nexus Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmory University School of Medicine\u0026rsquo;s Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Nexus Awards are grants awarded to spur interdisciplinary research projects that have the potential to impact health or generate biomedical knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award provides seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining data to develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGari Clifford\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the Wallace H. 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