Mansi Srivastava awarded a Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award

September 21, 2020
Mansi photograph by Tim Bradbury
photograph by Tim Bradbury

Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Mansi Srivastava, awarded a 2020 Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award for her project Comparing development and regeneration to uncover mechanisms for maintaining regenerative ability in adult animals.

"The Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created in 2017 to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences.  The Award supports the pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research.  The awards will fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from our brightest junior faculty in the region." - Smith Foundation website