Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, presented Veena Taneja, Ph.D. with the 2017 Individual Research Accomplishment for academia, in the category of Precision Medicine, today at the Military Health System (MHS) Research Symposium. The Individual Research Accomplishment award recognizes outstanding contributions by an individual scientist that had a high impact on MHS research within the past year.
Taneja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology at the Mayo Clinic, and her research centers on understanding the role of the immune system in the development of rheumatoid arthritis. She is recognized today for her research that discovered a new biomarker that can be used to treat inflammatory arthritis.