Johns Hopkins stem cell researcher Sharon Gerecht receives inaugural President's Frontier Award

Sharon Gerecht says that scientists always have different paths they would like to take with their research, but they usually have to stick to the roadmap for which they have funding. Today, she was encouraged to break new ground in stem cell biology when Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Robert C. Lieberman presented her with the inaugural President's Frontier Award in the amount of $250,000.

"Now we have the opportunity to go in new directions, which is great," she says. "I am very happy, and I am humbled."

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