Hopkins Medicine researcher Deidra Crews receives $250,000 President's Frontier Award

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Deidra Crews has become a national leader in the study of chronic kidney disease by examining not just its medical causes and effects, but also the socioeconomic factors that can explain profound racial disparities in who has the condition and how well it is managed.

Today, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels; Provost Sunil Kumar; and Paul Rothman, dean of the School of Medicine, presented Crews with the $250,000 President's Frontier Award, which, Daniels told her, "is to be used in your research, education, and clinical work and to allow you to dream." Read More at the Hub