{"id":11992,"date":"2019-05-21T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute?p=11992"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:33:08","slug":"dr-lakshmi-nair-receives-a-2019-gwims-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2019\/05\/21\/dr-lakshmi-nair-receives-a-2019-gwims-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lakshmi Nair Receives a 2019 GWIMS Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11993 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/05\/Dr.-Nair-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/gwims\/\"><em>Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) at UConn Health<\/em><\/a> held its 7<sup>th<\/sup> annual symposium on May 6<sup>th<\/sup> to honor outstanding women faculty, graduate, medical and dental students. The Convergence Institute\u2019s own Dr. Nair received the Women in Innovation Award from the CT Technology Council and was awarded as a finalist for the Research Innovation and Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nair has a long list of titles and accomplishments which led to her receiving this prestigious award. She is the Associate Director of the Connecticut Convergence Institute at UConn Health. A significant part of Dr. Nair\u2019s research is committed to developing injectable and biomimetic biomaterials and identifying bioactive molecules that could accelerate tissue regeneration and reduce musculoskeletal pain. She is also a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and serves as the Vice President for the UCONN chapter of NAI. She has more than 120 peer reviewed publications and edited several books in the area of Biomaterials and Orthopedic regenerative engineering. Dr. Nair also serves as the Managing editor of the journal of \u201cRegenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine\u201d and the Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) at UConn Health held its 7th annual symposium on May 6th to honor outstanding women faculty, graduate, medical and dental students. The Convergence Institute\u2019s own Dr. Nair received the Women in Innovation Award from the CT Technology Council and was awarded as a finalist for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 19:30:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}