CONGRATULATIONS ANTONINA MITROFANOVA WITH AWARDS BY THE PRESIDENTIAL EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR SCIENYISTS AND ENGINEERS (PECASE)

President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.

Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognizes the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhances connections between research and impacts on society, and highlights the importance of science and technology for our nation’s future.

From Day One of his Administration, President Biden has recognized the important role that science and technology plays in creating a better society. He made historic progress, increasing federally funded research and development and deploying past research and development at an unprecedented scale through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act.

This year’s awardees are employed or funded by 14 participating agencies within the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, the intelligence community, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Antonina Mitrofanova, an associate professor in the Department of Health Informatics and associate dean for research at the Rutgers School of Health Professions, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) – the highest honor granted by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers.

Nearly 400 researchers received the award this year from President Joe Biden. This year’s awardees are employed or funded by 14 governmental agencies. Mitrofanova’s recognition comes from the National Institutes of Health for her development of mathematical and computational algorithms that address biologically and clinically significant problems.

“This award is a tremendous honor,” said Mitrofanova, a research member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. “I immigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. at 21 and decided to change my career from medicine to computer science. This award represents my ‘American Dream’ and is living proof that in the U.S., you can dream big and achieve it if you put your heart into it.” To read the full story.