Dr. Sook-Lei Liew receives a National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award

Aug 31, 2015

Dr. Sook-Lei Liew has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Award from the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The overall objective of the NIH LRP is to enhance the recruitment and retention of highly qualified health professionals to scientific careers in clinical, pediatric, health disparities, or contraception and infertility research.

Per the NIH LRP website: “Since tomorrow’s medical breakthroughs will be made by investigators starting in their research careers today, the LRPs represent an important investment by NIH in the future of health discovery and the wellbeing of the Nation.”

Dr. Liew received a clinical LRP award for her research in characterizing neural recovery patterns after stroke in the human brain.