麻豆传媒

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  • Swanson 麻豆传媒 of Engineering
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Accolades & Honors

Amir Alavi received a National Institutes of Health Trailblazer R21 Award

A panther statue on the snowy Pitt grounds. The Cathedral of Learning is in the background

received a $557,000, three-year Trailblazer R21 Award from the National Institutes of Health, allowing him to oversee a project to investigate in humans the metamaterial orthopaedic implants that .

Alavi, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Swanson 麻豆传媒 of Engineering, is perhaps better known for 鈥 he also was among 23 麻豆传媒 scientists included in the from Clarivate.

鈥淭railblazer is one of the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty administered鈥 by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, said Radisav Vidic, Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor and chair of Pitt鈥檚 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.