This award honors an untenured faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding rapport with students and creates an exemplary classroom atmosphere.

Calvin Carter, PhD, assistant professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and a member of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, is one of 58 early-career scientists from across the nation to receive a 2023 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.