NIH awards researcher $1.5 million 'new innovator' grant for fruit-fly studies September 20, 2007 Guidry News, Sept. 18, 2007 The National Institutes of Health has selected UTMB assistant professor of neurology Pedro Fernandez-Funez to receive a five-year, $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award. « Back | The Newsroom »