{"id":67030,"date":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/02\/06\/new-investigator-benson-edagwa-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:42:23","slug":"new-investigator-benson-edagwa-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/02\/06\/new-investigator-benson-edagwa-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"New investigator: Benson Edagwa, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><i>This profile is part of a series to highlight the researchers who will be honored at a ceremony for UNMC&#8217;s 2019 Scientist Laureate, Research Leadership, Distinguished Scientist and New Investigator Award recipients.<\/i> <\/p>\n<div class=\"callout-right\">\n<h3>The New Investigator Award<\/h3>\n<p>New Investigator Awards go to outstanding UNMC scientists who in the past two years have secured their first funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense or other national sources.<br \/>\nNew Investigators also had to demonstrate scholarly activity such as publishing their research and\/or presenting their findings at national conventions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Name:<\/b> Benson Edagwa, Ph.D.\n<li><b>Title:<\/b> Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, College of Medicine\n<li><b>Joined UNMC:<\/b> July 2012\n<li><b>Hometown:<\/b> Kenya<\/ul>\n<p><b>Research focus:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Antiretroviral therapy.<\/p>\n<p><b>The goal of my research is:<\/b> To create novel, long-acting, slow effective release antiretroviral therapy (LASER ART) formulations to facilitate prevention and treatment strategies against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. 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