Professor Albert Keung has been selected to receive the 2020 ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award. The award, established in 2014, honors the contributions of “a young scientist who has made a major impact on synthetic biology and/or related fields.”

Prof. Keung’s research interests include synthetic biology, neural and stem cell engineering, and bioengineering. In 2017, he was the recipient of a prestigious Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Congratulations Prof. Keung for this acknowledgement of your excellent accomplishments!