Groundbreaking Model Of Heart Disease Rewarded With NIH Pioneer Award

A pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) likes to see-and reward with one of its most prestigious honors, a $2.5 million 2009 Pioneer Award. Ivor J. Benjamin, M.D., professor of internal medicine and biochemistry and the Christi T.