(
College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) Kathryn Whitehead, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded a 2018 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award for her project titled "Fate, Function, and Genetic Engineering of Breast Milk Cells for Infant Therapy." NIH Director's Awards are prestigious awards given to exceptionally creative scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research.