Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Graduate Faculty in BME & Stem Cell IGERT Faculty, for bagging the highly competitive NIH Director's New Innovator award, given nationally to a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches. Professor Lee's project funded at $2.3M is titled: Combinatorial approaches for studying multiple cues regulating human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) fate.