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Tara Deans, University of Utah

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University of Utah biomedical engineering assistant professor Tara Deans has received this year's National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and a $1.5 million grant to develop a method that could help stop the spread of cancer by using specially-engineered blood platelets to seek and destroy tumor cells in the bloodstream.

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Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering

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