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UW Bothell professor wins $549,000 grant for zebrafish research

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, March 21, 2017

UW Bothell professor wins $549,000 grant for zebrafish research
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UW Bothell professor wins $549,000 grant for zebrafish research
UW Bothell professor wins $549,000 grant for zebrafish research
UW Bothell professor wins $549,000 grant for zebrafish research

Hung Cao, University of Washington Bothell electrical engineering assistant professor, has been awarded $549,000 from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program.

Cao will use the five-year grant to continue developing tiny electronics to monitor the hearts of free-swimming zebrafish, a popular aquarium fish often used in research.

The research could lead to possible treatments for people who suffer heart attacks.

Cao’s zebrafish are located at a University of Washington School of Medicine research facility in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The zebrafish is a popular aquarium fish that’s widely used in scientific research. It was one of the first vertebrates to be cloned and to have its genome sequenced.

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