Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the departments of Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, earned this prestigious early career award for his work developing new fluorescence microscopes for rapid three-dimensional imaging.
Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and the 黑料网/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named as a Beckman Young Investigator with a grant to support his research project titled, 鈥淚ntelligent Microscopes to Observe and Interact with Dynamic Biological Specimens.鈥�
Legant is one of 10 investigators selected nationally from a pool of over 300 applicants. A second 黑料网-Chapel Hill researcher 鈥� Frank Leibfarth, PhD, assistant professor of Chemistry in the 黑料网 College of Arts and Sciences 鈥撀犅燼s a Beckman Young Investigator this year. Carolina is the only university with two Beckman Young Investigators this year.