Desai receives Emerging Scholar Award

Tejal Desai, PhD, UCSF School of Pharmacy and Medicine faculty member, was chosen in January 2009 as a 2009 Emerging Scholar in Physiology by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, which is a news source, founded in 1984, that gathers and shares information to promote the higher education of people of color and underrepresented minority groups. Desai is an bioengineer who focuses on the design, fabrication, and use of advanced micro/nano biosystems.

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