Danelle Devenport, a Princeton University assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, is one of four researchers nationwide to receive a 2014 Young Investigator Award from the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation in Boston. The $250,000 award recognizes original and innovative biomedical research. Devenport, who studies how cells coordinate collective behaviors over extremely long distances, combines time-lapse imaging with biophysical approaches to understand the signals skin cells use to direct tissue organization and growth.
