Professor in a blue coat and gloves inspecting plant leaves inside a bright greenhouse
In a greenhouse on the UC Davis campus, Imtiyaz Khanday pollinates potato flowers as part of his project to develop true potato seeds that preserve the beneficial traits of the parent plants from generation to generation. Such seeds would be a boon for small farmers around the world growing this important food crop. (UC Davis)

Khanday wins UCOP Excellence Award for early career scientists

Aim: Clonal seed for potato

  • by Louise Lee

SBC's Director of Research, Imtiyaz Khanday, is one of six people at UC Davis who received the Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award, granted along with a $50,000 prize by the University of California Office of the President.

This is the first year of the UCOP Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards, which seek to advance the university’s commitment to the scholarship and creative activity of early career faculty across all 10 UC campuses. Nominations were submitted by deans.

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