Three BU Research Teams Win First Kilachand Fund Awards

In 2018, BU trustee Rajen Kilachand (Questrom’74, Hon.’14) made the largest gift in Boston University’s history: $115 million. From that gift, $100 million established an endowment, the Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, to support interdisciplinary research and solutions to some of today’s most vexing societal woes and medical diseases.

Now, the first three teams to receive Kilachand awards through a University competition will use the funding to develop new solutions in multicellular design, biosensors, and modeling the human brain.

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