Texas Tech researcher receives NIH funding for biomedical work - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Indrajit Srivastava, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, received the grant through the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The award is called a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, a funding mechanism designed to give individual researchers sustained support for a broad program of work rather than a single narrow project.

Srivastava's focus is second near-infrared imaging, known as NIR-II bioimaging. The technology gives clinicians sharper, clearer views deep inside the body, which matters enormously in diagnosis and treatment. His lab has been developing the tools that make that kind of imaging possible.

For people here, this is the kind of research that puts Texas Tech on the map in ways that go beyond football. A $2.1 million federal grant flowing into a Lubbock lab means graduate students get funded, equipment gets bought, and work that could eventually affect how doctors catch disease earlier stays rooted on this campus rather than somewhere else.

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds research that spans multiple scientific disciplines, which tracks with an engineer building tools for medical imaging.