Congratulations to Professor Hailing Jin who is the sole PI on 2 recent grant awards!

Dr. Jin received a prestigious 5-year Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA R35) from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) for more than $377k/year, ~1.89M total. The grant is titled"Cross-kingdom RNA communications between plant and fungal pathogens." 

Dr. Jin also received a $900k grant from USDA/NSF (United States Department of Agriculture/National Science Foundation) titled "Development of innovative RNA-based anti-fungals to control plant fungal disease."