Two University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professors will receive the 2010 Shaw Scientist Awards, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced on Wednesday.
Anjon Audhya, assistant professor of biomolecular chemistry, and Eric Strieter, assistant professor of chemistry, each will get a $200,000 unrestricted prize from the James D. and Dorothy Shaw Fund. The funding provides needed support to young scholar-scientists engaged in groundbreaking research in the fields of genetics, cell biology and cancer research at critical stages in their careers, according to a release from the UW-Madison news service.