2024 Awardee: Lauren Frazer MD, PhD, Receives The Early Career Faculty Research Award

The NEC Society is honored to fund a $5,000 research award for early-career faculty, who are key to driving progress and innovation in this field.

Lauren is a neonatologist-scientist and NEC researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. She witnesses the devastating impact of NEC daily. 

Lauren used her background in immunology and neonatology to propose a project surrounding the improvement of NEC diagnostic tools through the research and identification of potential biomarkers.

Lauren Frazer MD, PhD, 2024 Early Career Faculty Research Awardee

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