Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan recognized for her CZI grant!
Kathryn Milligan-McClellan, assistant professor of microbiology and recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award.
“Throughout her career in academia, Milligan-McClellan has intertwined her scientific pursuits with her work to lift Native and HEU students and faculty, an approach shaped by her experiences growing up and her own educational journey. Her melding of the two was recognized in spectacular fashion in October, when Milligan-McClellan received a $1.15 million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award. The funding aims to acknowledge and advance the leadership of excellent biomedical researchers who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their scientific fields.
The five-year grant funding will allow her to pursue research inspired by health disparities among Alaskan Natives, who have a higher incidence of diseases connected to changes in the microbiome, Milligan-McClellan says. The project will explore why the microbiota, which affects inflammation, is different over time and across populations.”
-UConn Today, Loretta Waldman, Special to UConn Research